TASMANIAN SENATE ELECTIONS 1961
FIG. 1-B. AN EVENLY SPREAD VOTE WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN A MORE PROPORTIONAL DIVISION OF SEATS.
THIS FIGURE SHOWS THE RESULT IF THE VOTES FOR THE MAJOR PARTIES WERE EVENLY SPREAD AMONG THEIR CANDIDATES: NAMELY, 3 TO 2 (3 ALP AND 2 LIB)	Click here to compare to 1-A.
	Quota = 26,641
	IF THE VOTE OF A PARTY WERE SPREAD EVENLY OVER ITS 3 CANDIDATES, ALL WOULD BE AHEAD OF THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE.
(EACH COLUMN REPRESENTS THE NO. OF VOTES RECEIVED BY THE RESPECTIVE CANDIDATES)
AS THE CANDIDATE WITH THE LEAST VOTES, IS NOW THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE, DR. TURNBULL, HE WOULD BE EXCLUDED, HIS PREFERENCES THEN DECIDING THE 5TH SEAT. (SEE TEXT FOR FURTHER EXPLANATION AND FOR REASONS WHY, IN THIS EXAMPLE, A 3-2 DIVISION OF SEATS WOULD BE MORE EQUITABLE THAN A 2-2-1 RESULT).	Report to Tasmanian Parliament by Dr George Howatt, Hobart, 1979
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.