TASMANIAN SENATE ELECTIONS 1961
FIG. 1-A. REGIMENTED VOTING CAUSES A LESS PROPORTIONAL RESULT.
THIS FIGURE SHOWS THE ACTUAL RESULT UNDER THE EXISTING SYSTEM OF SENATE-STYLE REGIMENTED VOTING: NAMELY, A 2-2-1 DIVISION OF SEATS (2 LIB, 2 ALP, 1 INDEPENDENT) Click here to compare to 1-B.
Quota = 26,641
 
ChartObject THE VOTES FOR THE RESPECTIVE CANDIDATES BEFORE THE LAST EXCLUSION OF CANDIDATES WERE: BECAUSE OF  
REGIMENTED VOTING  
EACH MAJOR PARTY  
ELECTED  
2 CANDIDATES EACH  
WITH FULL QUOTAS,  
THUS LEAVING THEIR  
THIRD CANDIDATES  
WITH FEWER VOTES  
THAN IF THE PARTY  
VOTE HAD BEEN SPREAD OVER ITS 
3 CANDIDATES.
(EACH COLUMN REPRESENTS THE NO. OF VOTES RECEIVED BY THE RESPECTIVE CANDIDATES)
 
AS THE THIRD CANDIDATE OF THE ALP GROUP (MR. DEVITT) HAD THE LEAST NUMBER OF VOTES, HE WAS EXCLUDED, AND HIS PREFERENCES ELECTED THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE, DR. TURNBULL.
This Figure 4-A was digitized by the Proportional Representation Society of Australia in 2003, from Dr Howatt's Report, from a copy kindly obtained from the Library of the Parliament of Tasmania by Hon. Neil Robson.