QUEENSLAND SENATE ELECTIONS 1964
FIG. 2-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 LCP AND 2 ALP)
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Quota = 125,232
IF THE VOTES OF THE MAJOR  PARTIES WERE SPREAD EVENLY OVER THEIR CANDIDATES, ALL OF THEM WOULD BE AHEAD OF THE DLP CANDIDATE.
(EACH COLUMN REPRESENTS THE NO. OF VOTES RECEIVED BY THE RESPECTIVE CANDIDATES)
 
AS THE CANDIDATE WITH THE LEAST VOTES IS NOW THE DLP CANDIDATE, MR. GAIR, HE WOULD BE EXCLUDED, HIS PREFERENCES THEN DETERMINING WHICH PARTY WOULD WIN THE 5TH SEAT. (SEE TEXT FOR FURTHER DETAIL 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.