Libs
then National Party

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

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.

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


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!