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Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 834623471

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-30699

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Holzer, Franz

Title:: General-Zoll-Tarif für die Ein- und Ausfuhr aller Waaren folgender europäischen Staaten: Oesterreich-Ungarn, Deutschland [usw.]

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Spielhagen & Schurich

Year of publication:: 1884

Scope:: Online-Ressource

Collection:: Economics Books

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CHAP, VI] THE LOWER HOUSES 509 In the succeeding sections of this Act the term ‘ absolute majority of votes’ means a number of votes greater than one-half of the number of all the electors who vote at an election, exclusive of electors whose ballot-papers are rejected, but the casting vote of the returning officer, when given, shall be included in reckoning an absolute majority of votes. 21. When a poll is taken at an election a candidate shall not, except as hereinafter provided, be elected as a member unless he receives an absolute majority of votes. 22. Notwithstanding the provisions of the seventy-third section of the Principal Act, an elector may, if he thinks fit, indicate on his ballot-paper the name or names of any candidate or candidates for whom he does not vote in the first instance, but for whom he desires his vote or votes to be counted in the event of any candidate or candidates for whom he votes in the first instance not receiving an absolute majority of votes ; and, if he indicates more than one such candidate, may indicate the order in which he desires that his vote or votes shall be counted for any such candidate or candidates, Such indication shall be made by writing the figures 2, 3, or any subsequent number, opposite to the name or names of the candidate or candidates for whom he does not vote in the first instance, but for whom he desires his vote or votes to be so counted, and the order indicated by such numbers shall be taken to be the order in which he desires his vote or votes to be so counted. Provided always that no mere irregularity or error in writing such figures shall invalidate the vote or votes given by an elector in favour of any candidate or candidates in the first instance, if the ballot-paper of such elector is otherwise in order. 23. When one member only is to be returned at the election, if there is no candidate who receives an absolute majority of votes, all the candidates except those two who receive the greatest number of votes shall be deemed defeated candidates. The vote of every elector who has voted for a defeated candidate shall be counted for that one (if any) of the remaining two candidates for whom he has indicated in the manner aforesaid that he desires his vote to be counted. the Premier of Victoria introduced a Bill into the Assembly for preferential voting, but the Upper House was not prepared to accept it and the Govern- ment allowed it to drop, but has reintroduced it. in 1911.

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