Line 4.0.0 THIS authoritative article

Line 4.0.1 has been prepared to help

Line 4.0.2 readers • follow progress

Line 4.0.3 counting for the Senate

Line 4.0.4 after Saturday's election.

Line 4.0.5 Senators will be elected for

Line 4.0.6 the first time under a pro

Line 4.0.7 portional representation

Line 4.0.8 system.

Line 4.0.9 Surplus'..votes of all elected

Line 4.0.10 candidates are so. distributed,

Line 4.0.11 and'in this process other candi-.

Line 4.0.12 dates will probably receive

Line 4.0.13 quotas.

Line 4.0.14 The process is then repeated,

Line 4.0.15 but.. only. those; ballot papers

Line 4.0.16 which have. bedn transferred to

Line 4.0.17 the elected candidate from a can

Line 4.0.18 didate' previously elected, shall

Line 4.0.19 be taken into consideration.

Line 4.0.20 Exclusions

Line 4.0.21 IF;.-after the count of first p're

Line 4.0.22 :ferences or after the transfer

Line 4.0.23 of surpluses, no candidate has,

Line 4.0.24 or less than the number of can

Line 4.0.25 didates to be elected have, re

Line 4.0.26 ceived- a quota, . the candidate

Line 4.0.27 who has the fewest votes is then

Line 4.0.28 excluded and the whole of his

Line 4.0.29 ballot papers shall be trans

Line 4.0.30 ferred to continuing candidabs.

Line 4.0.31 next in order of the voter's pre

Line 4.0.32 ferences.

Line 4.0.33 The exclusion of candidates and

Line 4.0.34 distribution of his votes is repeat

Line 4.0.35 ed until a continuing candidate

Line 4.0.36 reaches a quota, or, in respect

Line 4.0.37 of the last vacancy, a majority

Line 4.0.38 of votes.

Line 4.0.39 For the last vacancy, a candi

Line 4.0.40 date who has a majority of votes

Line 4.0.41 shaill be elected, notwithstanding

Line 4.0.42 that his votes do not equal a

Line 4.0.43 quota.

Line 4.0.44 Three Or 6 Years

Line 4.0.45 rHE first five senators elected

Line 4.0.46 in Tasmania. will hold office

Line 4.0.47 until Juite 30, 1956, and the sixth

Line 4.0.48 and seventh elected have only a

Line 4.0.49 three-year term.

Line 4.0.50 So the order in which sup

Line 4.0.51 porters vote for Senate candi

Line 4.0.52 dates is vital to the candidates

Line 4.0.53 themselves. It may mean the

Line 4.0.54 difference between a six-year

Line 4.0.55 and a three-year term.

Line 4.0.56 The New Senate will comprise

Line 4.0.57 10 members from each state, in

Line 4.0.58 stead of six, as in the past.

Line 4.0.59 Only three of each state's pre

Line 4.0.60 sent schators retire this year.

Line 4.0.61 The other three come up for elec

Line 4.0.62 tion in three years' time.

Line 4.0.63 Next Saturday electors will

Line 4.0.64 choose seven new senators to

Line 4.0.65 make up, with the three who

Line 4.0.66 don't retire, the new total of

Line 4.0.67 10.

Line 4.0.68 In future five senators will re

Line 4.0.69 tire at each election. Those re

Line 4.0.70 tiring at the next election will

Line 4.0.71 be the sixth and seventh elected

Line 4.0.72 on Saturday and the three whose