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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