It was the first under a new voting system for the Senate that replaced group voting tickets with optional preferential voting. If I am correct, do you foresee any possibility of a challenge in a close result due to this deliberate misinformation by AEC? The Xenophon phenomenon appears to have frightened off micro parties with 10 fewer columns on the ballot paper in 2016. House of Representatives candidates; Senate candidates; House of Representatives candidates State Division The US system has far too high a hurdle for new entrants. I am voting early. - Jenny Foot June 13, 2016 at 11:43 PM, is there a site where basic credentials for office ( speeches CV's ) are listed for Senate candidatess say state by state, - john modra June 14, 2016 at 11:49 AM. [s 105A(d)], - jenny Foot June 12, 2016 at 05:51 PM. 1) given the max width of offset printing, will we meed a magnifying glass to read some of the Senate Ballot Papers for some States? Help for individuals and groups who are active in federal elections. PUP's only lower house candidate is standing in Townsville! Nomination details for the 2016 Federal election closed yesterday. Signatures. It will be interesting to see if the informal vote is disproportionately higher in the 40 seats where there are 8 or more candidates, and where an attempt to mark the ballot with 1 to 6 only will therefore produce an informal vote. There needs to be better scrutiny of membership, and perhaps a lift in numbers. [1] Incumbent Malcolm Turnbull was narrowly re-elected by forming a coalition government with other smaller parties. What is the chance of ALA, FF or Xenophon getting enough votes by the time the preferences run out? COMMENT: Within district pre-poll votes are counted on the night, which means over half of all early votes are counted on the night. The new voting system is similar to what has been in place for a number of years in NSW except that parties can advocate “Just vote 1” in NSW. Stalin, Hitler, Mao had no problem with elections with one candidate. Why are people so opposed to the notion of people running for parliament. Hope this questions passes Australia’s diminishing press freedom. Separating "Grouped" from "Ungrouped" on the Senate Ballot Paper seems to be dated back to 1919. advocating for the next reform of voting, being OPV in the house and cleaning up party registration and candidate nomination requirements ? I'll push for the return of Senate nominators. Microparties will have no chance, while minor parties will be in with a chance. Family First have drawn Column A, Labor in B, Greens in C, Liberals in F and Lambie Network in M. With only 11 columns but the ACT ballot draw is less critical on a smaller ballot paper. This page was last changed on 23 January 2020, at 18:36. Just a question about Senate voting. If two independents want to group, they need 100 individual nominators each, so you effectively need 200 unique local nominators for a Senate group. There should be a minnows run-off election two weeks before the main election, with the top three or four parties only to be admitted onto the main ballot. Labor has drawn well in Column D, but the Coalition and the Greens are on the far right of the ballot paper. There is a long history of new Australian political parties entering parliament such as the Labour Party, the country party, the DLP, the Australian Democrats, the Australian Greens, and so on. - Dennis Kavanagh June 10, 2016 at 04:04 PM. Of those who allocated preferences Animal Justice got 2.4% of the second preferences. This 2.4% of preferences might seem significant however, it is 2.4% of votes after the bulk of candidates have been elected. Some examples of preference flows above 10%, Shooters 2015 =17% Coalition 31% Fishing 13% Labor 11% Outdoor Rec, Christian D 2011 = 63% Coalition 20% Family First, Cyclists 2015= 14% Coalition 47% Greens 12% Labor. NSW Legislative Council Preference Flows and Implications for Senate Reform, Also this one, though it was written before the proposed Senate system was increased from 1 to 6 preferences above the line How the Senate's new Electoral System Might Work - Lessons from NSW. And if you are looking to see what happens to the votes for the majors if they fall short and preferences flow to minors. Or is it simply an error that needs to be fixed? That is effectively what is done in the USA with their primaries. Formality will be determined by data entry of the ballot papers. In the Senate ballot draw, Health Australia Party drew the first column. Labor drew column 14 while the Greens are well over to the right on the ballot paper. Official federal election results as they were at the return of the writs (8 August 2016) for the 2016 federal election. In both the Rowe and Roach cases the High Court threw out attempts to narrow the franchise and on that basis a broad right to vote has been established on the basis of the implied meaning of the Constitution. As I expected, the new Senate voting system, although preferable to the old one, has not succeeded in deterring bogus candidates for the Senate. Nominators should replace central nomination for Senate elections, as the cause of ballot papers is micro-parties making use of central nomination to put forward candidates in states where they have little or no organisation. The Americans have a system where to be elected you need to be a millionaire. As Adam pointed out, the deposit should be increased. https://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2016/guide/sact/. I'll presume your referring to the profusion of minor parties rather than the election of minor parties. He won a confidence and supply support from Bob Katter, Andrew Wilkie and Cathy McGowan in the event of a hung parliament and resulting minority government. COMMENT: For the count all above the line votes are converted into an equivalent below the line sequence of preferences, and then all ballot papers are treated equally. Can you clarify why the Australian Equality Party is not included in this list? WA has picked up a lower house seat at the expense of NSW. 25,000 is way to high. Registered parties don't, which is why there are several mainland candidates nominated in Tasmania for the smaller political parties. Nomination details for the 2016 Federal election closed yesterday. Why is the AEC still advertising that voters must (for a vote to be accepted) number at least 1 to 6 on the Senate paper and is still informing scrutineers the same? Presumably this allows for zero leakage on the preference run-off for those so inclined. I would suggest $1 million deposit for a Senate group, and $100,000 for an ungrouped candidate. In the recent High Court challenge, the justices dismissed any discussion of the just vote '1' option because it was a savings provision, not the definition of a formal vote. In Tasmania, virtually the entire legislative council are independents. COMMENT: I think you should read some of my numerous posts on this topic, in particular my detailed analysis of NSW LC preference flows. COMMENT: The ABC Senate page for the ACT has links to the website of each party. Will their votes still be counted in the week after election night? (could not find them on the AEC website at this stage). Possibly the size of the deposit should be increased significantly, if only to pay for the extra printing. [4][5] Turnbull talked with the crossbench. The new system was brought in quite late, after the parties had been preparing for this election for almost 3 years. The American system goes out of its way to exclude 3rd parties. Would it be logistically feasible/possible? COMMENT: Your ballot paper remains live for all the preferences you fill in as long as those preferences are for candidates that remain in the count. The major change in candidate numbers is due to there being only 1 Palmer United Party candidate, contesting Herbert, against 150 in 2013. As of November 1, 2016, a total of 1,780 candidates had filed a Statement of Candidacy with the Federal Election Commission. I realise that this effectively negates preferential voting for those who wish to make one vote for 1 candidate only which is not the AEC's preferred option, but isn't this deliberate misinformation by the AEC which will force thousands of people to allocate preferences against their will? It was the one option that the government's reform package did not adopt but I'll advocate it again after this election. I wish to vote for the current government. The first is that the next election should be a normal one, with a correspondingly higher quota for election. Authorised by the Electoral Commissioner, Canberra, Party register, applications and decisions, Torres Strait Regional Authority elections, Court of Disputed Returns has ordered a number of special Senate counts, 2016 House of Representatives federal election results map [PDF 13.7MB], New South Wales electorate map [PDF 53.5MB], Western Australia electorate map [PDF 15.9MB], South Australia electorate map [PDF 14.4MB], Australian Capital Territory electorate map [PDF 1.8MB], Northern Territory electorate map [PDF 8MB], Divisional profiles for the 2016 federal election. Turnbull claimed victory later that day. 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