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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Electoral (Legislative Council Voting Thresholds)
Amendment Bill 2014
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Electoral
Act 1985.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Electoral
Act 1985
3Amendment of section 95—Scrutiny of votes
in Legislative Council election
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Legislative Council Voting
Thresholds) Amendment Act 2014.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Electoral
Act 1985
3—Amendment
of section 95—Scrutiny of votes in Legislative Council
election
Section 95—after subsection (6) insert:
(6a) If the number of first preference votes given for a candidate (other
than a candidate who is a member of a group) is less than 2.5% of the total
number of all such votes, the candidate is excluded from the count and a vote
indicated on a ballot paper opposite the name of the candidate must be counted
to the candidate next in the order of the voter's preference, and the numbers
indicating subsequent preferences will be taken to be altered
accordingly.
(6b) If, in relation to a group of candidates, none of the candidates in
the group has received a number of first preference votes equal to or greater
than 2.5% of the total number of all such votes, the candidates in the
group are excluded from the count and a vote indicated on a ballot paper
opposite the name of any such candidate must be counted to the candidate next in
the order of the voter's preference (not being a candidate who is a member of
that group), and the numbers indicating subsequent preferences will be taken to
be altered accordingly.