•52 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION, 



R.S. TAS. 



(In Representation. The Journal of the Propor- 

 tional Representation Society. Second Year (1909), 

 No. 14, September, 1909, pp. 154-160.) 



A summary of the memorandum presented to the 

 Royal Commission on Systems of Election (see 28). 



25. Professor E. J. Nanson. An article in the Mel- 

 bourne ''Age'' of 8th May, 1909. 



{Quoted in Representation. The Journal of the 

 Proportional Representation Society. Second Year 

 (1909), No. 12, May, 1909, p. 101.) 



The results of the election of 30th April, 1909. dis- 

 cussed. 



26. P. C. Douglas. Under-Secretary and Chief Elec- 

 toral Ofhcer; E. L. Piesse, Assistant Returning Officer 

 for Districts of Denison and Franklin; W. A. B. Birch- 

 all, Parliamentary Draftsman, Assistant Returning Offi- 

 cer for Districts of Denison and Franklin. Tasmania. 

 General Election for House of Assembly, April 30, 1909. 

 Report on the System of Proportional Representation 

 used in accordance with '' The Electoral Act, 1907." 

 26 pp., and 8 folded scrutiny-abstracts. Fo. 



{In Papers of the Parliament of Tasmania, Vol. LI., 

 1909, No. 34.) 



The rules for conducting the scrutiny. The Droop 

 quota compared with the Hare quota. The conduct of 

 the scrutiny. General observations on the election ; 

 the representation secured by the Labour Party pro- 

 portional to the number of its supporters. Comparison 

 of the rules used with those proposed in the Municipal 

 Representation Bill passed by the House of Lords in 

 1908 ; discussion of the element of chance in transferring 

 surpluses according to the Hare-Clark rules, the rules 

 of the English Bilb and the rules of the Electoral Act 

 of 1907; re-scrutiny of the papers used at the election 

 according to the rules of the English Bill; the Gregory 

 fractional method of transfer recommended to be 

 retained in Tasmania. Recommendations for amend- 

 ment of the Electoral Act of 1907. 



Appendix : Rules of the Elect oral Act of 1907. 

 Rules of the Municipal Representation Bill (English), 

 1908. Tables relating to the General Election, 30th 

 April, 1909: I. Number of Electors on Rolls and Num- 

 ber who Voted; II. Number and Percentage of Informal 

 Ballot-papers; III. Sources of Informalities of Ballot- 

 papers; IV. Exhausted Ballot-papers; V. Nnmber of 

 Choices recorded for all Candidates; VT, Nnmber of 

 Choices recorded for each Candidate; VII. Analysis of 

 the Votes at the end of the Scrutiny; VIII. Average 

 Value as a Fraction of a Vote of each Choice recorded; 



