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-      Instructions on the ballot paper will require voters to show preferences (1, 2 and so on) for all of the candidates standing in the electorate.

   -      Candidates to be elected will have to receive a majority (i.e. 50% plus 1) of the formal votes in the electorate.

   -      If no candidate has obtained a majority of votes after first preference votes have been counted, the candidate with the fewest votes will be excluded and his or her votes will be transferred to the remaining candidates who stood next highest in the relevant voters' preferences.

   -      This process of excluding candidates with the fewest votes will continue until one candidate has obtained a majority of the votes still in the count.

 •    If a member dies, or resigns, or otherwise vacates his or her seat, the vacancy will be filled by a by-election in his or her electorate.

 •    The boundaries of electorates will be drawn by bodies independent of the Commonwealth and ACT governments. The criteria which govern the drawing of the boundaries of House of Representatives divisions will apply as nearly as practicable to the drawing of the boundaries of Legislative Assembly electorates.

 •    A redrawing of boundaries should take place in the first 12 months after each general election of members of the Legislative Assembly.

MODEL PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION (HARE-CLARK) SYSTEM

 •    The ACT will be divided into 3 separate electorates, of which two will elect 5 members each, and one will elect 7 members, to the Legislative Assembly.

 •    No candidate will be allowed to stand in more than one electorate at a general election.

•    The ballot paper used will look like this:

SCHEDULE 5—continued

BALLOT PAPER

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FOR THE
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ELECTORAL DIVISION OF ....

Number the boxes from 1 to ....
   PARTY     PARTY     GROUPED NON-PARTY CANDIDATES    UNGROUPED CANDIDATES
□         CANDIDATE'S  □                             CANDIDATE'S             □  CANDIDATE'S  □  CANDIDATE'S
          NAME                                       NAME                       NAME            NAME
□         CANDIDATE'S  □                             CANDIDATE'S             □  CANDIDATE'S  □  CANDIDATE'S
          NAME                                       NAME                       NAME            NAME
□         CANDIDATE'S  □                             CANDIDATE'S             □  CANDIDATE'S
          NAME                                       NAME                       NAME
□         CANDIDATE'S  □                             CANDIDATE'S
          NAME                                       NAME
□         CANDIDATE'S  □                             CANDIDATE'S
          NAME                                       NAME
□         CANDIDATE'S  □                             CANDIDATE'S
          NAME                                       NAME
□         CANDIDATE'S  □                             CANDIDATE'S
          NAME                                       NAME

 •    The names of candidates within party groups will not be printed in the same position within the group on every ballot paper. Instead, a particular candidate's name will be printed at the top of the group on some ballot papers, in the second position within the group on other ballot papers and so on, so as to share out the positions.

 •    The same principle will apply to the printing of independent candidates' names in the column for independents on the ballot paper.

 SCHEDULE 5—continued

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