Victorian Ballot Paper Reform

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Ballot Paper

Election of 5 Members

2018

Western Metropolitan Region

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF VICTORIA

Number five boxes from 1 to 5 in the order of your choice You may then show as many further preferences as you wish by writing numbers from 6 onwards in other boxes A DERRYN HINCH’S JUSTICE PARTY CUMMING Catherine Rebecca

B, C, D, E and F SURNAMES ONLY BEECH

G LIBERAL FINN Bernie

LEUNG CUMMING Daniel Henry

WEBB

GOURISETTY Dinesh DEEMING Moira

KEARNS

Q AUSTRALIAN GREENS

R AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

UNGROUPED

BECKWITH Joan

LOWINGER Daniel

TRUONG Huong

MELHEM Cesar

MAJDLIK Kathy

KARLOVSKY

SIMS Nia

ABDELNOUR Ramy

CASH Emely

STITT Ingrid

GRIMA Diana

THOMAS Bernadette

VAGHELA Kaushaliya Virjibhai

PEREYRA Elena

PSAILA Kirsten

CHESSELLS-BEEBY Annie

PERSSE Louise

REEVES BOTHA

WOOD David

CHARLES O’NEILL

O TRANSPORT MATTERS

THOMPSON

FRANKLIN JORQUERA

CARUSO

N VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA PARTY (VICTORIA)

LEEN

ECKEL COHEN

H, I, J, K, L and M SURNAMES ONLY

TWIDALE DOENSEN

Di NOIA Nathan

BELCHER RIGG ASHBY

P LABOUR DLP VILLAGONZALO Walter ROYAL Mark Thomas

JENKINSON GLENN

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Remember, your vote will not count unless you number at least 5 boxes

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Daniel Henry Cumming Terri Beech Karina Leung Hayley Webb Casey Eckel Francine Cohen Terri Franklin Jorge Jorquera Andrew Charles Stuart O’Neill Ian James Kearns Bernie Finn Dinesh Gourisetti Moira Deeming David Wood Nathan Di Noia Benito Caruso Tony Leen Adam Karlovsky Mark Thompson Christopher Reeves Chris Botha Jamie Twidale

A B B C C D D E E F F G G G G G H H I I I J J

365

4,959

45

58

7,821

63

2,092

250

522

356

457

96,858

57

4,340

135

2,624

56

3,231

19

548

279

11,728

228

31,354

Elected (2)

Elected (5)

Louise Persse

Diana Grima

Kathy Majdlik

Ungrouped

R

Kirsten Psaila

Kaushaliya Vaghela R

Ingrid Stitt R

Cesar Melhem

Annie Chessells-Beeby

Elena Pereyra

Bernadette Thomas

Emely Cash

Huong Truong

Mark Thomas Royal

Walter Villagonzelo

Ramy Abdelnour

Daniel Lowinger

Nia Sims

Joan Beckwith

Deanne Glenn

Briony Jenkinson

Geoff Ashby

Wayne Rigg

Richard Belcher

Allan Doensen

R

R

Q

Q

Q

Q

Q

P

P

O

O

N

N

M

M

L

L

K

K

199

165

1,852

847

430

1,444

209,635

532

595

726

411

38,079

201

16,125

75

2,979

71

3,686

74

4,276

136

8,768

141

3,366

Elected (4)

Elected (3)

Elected (1)

Malcolm Mackerras 22 January 2019

If I had the space I could demonstrate that two other Greens would also have won seats in metropolitan Melbourne. In the Eastern Metropolitan Region Samantha Dunn secured 34,957 primary votes, that being 8.4 per cent of the total formal vote or 50.1 per cent of the quota of 69,756. In the Southern Metropolitan Region Sue Pennicuik secured 55,207 primary votes, that being 12.9 per cent of the total formal vote or 77.1 per cent of the quota of 71,610.

The most controversial aspect of this election was the failure of The Greens to retain seats in three regions. In respect of the Western Metropolitan Region I invite readers to look at the above statistics and agree with me that Huong Truong would have been elected under my electoral system. She secured 38,079 primary votes, that being 8.2 per cent of the total formal vote or 49.3 per cent of the quota. Under the system operating in 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018, however, she lost to Catherine Rebecca Cumming who secured 31,354 primary votes, that being 6.8 per cent of the total formal vote or 40.6 per cent of the quota.

The total formal vote was 463,258 and the quota for election was 77,210. Rachel Carling-Jenkins (elected for the Democratic Labor Party in 2014, but later joining the Australian Conservatives – and, in 2018, not contesting to retain her Legislative Council seat) was replaced by a Labor member. Colleen Hartland was elected for The Greens in 2006, 2010 and 2014. Early in 2017 she resigned her seat. Huong Truong was appointed to replace her, effective from 21 February 2017.

Catherine Rebecca Cumming

A

As a consequence of my desire to make my model ballot papers consistent with each other I am collapsing together all of the columns B, C,D, E and F into one column showing surnames only. Likewise, for the same reason, I am collapsing together columns H, I, J, K, L and M into one column showing surnames only. Transport Matters and Labour DLP are two separate columns on the original ballot paper but shown here as one page to save space. For the model ballot paper see overleaf. The first preference votes were:

The left-hand one-third of the November 2018 ballot paper was this:

BALLOT PAPER FOR THE ELECTION OF 5 MEMBERS FOR EACH VICTORIAN REGION