Libs
then National Party

Then if that dont win a seat who do the votes go to next?

Labor


A vote for Liberals is a vote for Labor


Tweedle Dee / Tweedle Dumb


Choose change, Choose Greens

Well I vote in order of who I like, and I do not follow any party ticket.
I put all those loony parties at the bottom.
I will vote Labor 1, then Greens 2, then a few independents that are not nutters, then the Libs, then all the loonies after that.

Seeing Fielding win a seat with less than 2% of the Primary vote, should be lesson enough to use your head, and vote to keep these single issue loonies out of politics.

Follow the links to the AEC site for more detail.

http://www.ozpolitic.com/electoral-reform/senate-group-voting-tickets-above-line-guide.html


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A vote for Liberals is a vote for Labor

Actually, both major parties put the greens (and several other minor parties including family first) before the other major party. They would rather have a choice between negotiating with the other major party to get legislation through the senate and negotiating with minor parties and independents.

Mozz, what was Fielding's 'single issue'?

No wrote on Aug 21^st, 2010 at 7:26am:

Libs then National Party Then if that dont win a seat who do the votes go to next?

Not sure if you are playing dumb or not - but the Senate runds on a quota system and the allocation of your preferences depends upon whether you vote above or below the line...

Most parties put up more than one candidate (often several) - so, if a party gets more first preference votes than one quota, then the surplus votes flow to their next candidate on their pre-filed Senate preference deal lists - and so on...

Where it gets tricky, and unpredictable, is the point where the surplus ceases to reach a quota and therefore (basically) the unused preference votes are transferred to the next party on the list - this is how Steve Fielding became the accidental Senator, thanks to the risky pre-filed preference deals of Labs!