Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00105:schedule:2:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00105
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2 (pt 1/7)
Character Range: 240423–243073

Schedule 2—Method of counting votes and determining successful candidates at elections for 2 or more members for a TSRA ward
Note: See section 143E.

1.  In a TSRA ward election for 2 or more members for the ward concerned, the scrutiny shall be conducted, and the several vacancies shall be filled, in the manner set out in this Schedule.
2.  Where, for the purposes of this Schedule:
 (a) the number of ballot papers or votes in any category is required to be ascertained;
 (b) a quota, a transfer value or the order of standing of continuing candidates in a poll is required to be determined; or
 (c) a candidate is required to be identified;
the authorised electoral officer shall ascertain the number, determine the quota, transfer value or order, or identify the candidate, as the case may be.
3.  The number of first preference votes given for each candidate and the total number of all such votes shall be ascertained and a quota shall be determined by dividing the total number of first preference votes by one more than the designated number in relation to the ward and by increasing the quotient so obtained (disregarding any remainder) by 1, and any candidate who has received a number of first preference votes equal to or greater than the quota shall be elected.
4.  Unless all the vacancies have been filled, the number (if any) of votes in excess of the quota (in this clause called surplus votes) of each elected candidate shall be transferred to the continuing candidates as follows:
 (a) the number of surplus votes of the elected candidate shall be divided by the number of first preference votes received by him or her and the resulting fraction shall be the transfer value;
 (b) the total number of ballot papers of the elected candidate that express the first preference vote for him or her and the next available preference for a particular continuing candidate shall be multiplied by the transfer value, the number so obtained (disregarding any fraction) shall be added to the number of first preference votes of the continuing candidate and all those ballot papers shall be transferred to the continuing candidate;
and any continuing candidate who has received a number of votes equal to or greater than the quota on the completion of any such transfer shall be elected.
5.  Unless all the vacancies have been filled, the surplus votes (if any) of any candidate elected under clause 4, or elected subsequently under this clause, shall be transferred to the continuing candidates in accordance with paragraphs 4(a) and (b), and any continuing candidate who has received a number of votes equal to or greater than the quota