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Why ACF’s unfair, multiple first-past-the-post system ended in 1973
Election Results for the Australian Conservation Foundation Council: 1973
The year 1973 was the last time the ACF Council was elected by its old multiple first-past-the-post electoral system, which was the system abandoned for Senate polls in 1919. ACF's present quota-preferential proportional representation system, which is the counting system that has been used for Senate polls since 1948, replaced that at a 1974 postal referendum of ACF members. See the link just below for why the old system was defective and replaced.
Click for ACF’s last use of its Multiple First-past-the-post System in 1973, and its defects.
Election Results for the Australian Conservation Foundation Council: 2003
This was the election for the ACF Council held thirty years after ACF held its last Council election under the multiple first-past-the-post system in 1973, details of which appear at the link at the bottom of this page. Since 1973 ACF has used a quota-preferential proportional representation system, results of which in 2003 for each of the ACF’s seven electoral districts contested are shown at the links below:
Australian Capital Territory			Tasmania
New South Wales			Victoria
Queensland			Western Australia
South Australia			Northern Territory (no poll required)
Election Results for the Australian Conservation Foundation Council: 2009
Australian Capital Territory			Tasmania (no nominations)
New South Wales			Victoria
Queensland			Western Australia
South Australia (no poll required)			Northern Territory