5-t BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION, 



R.S. TAS. 



1911. 



29. John H. Humphreys (Hon. Secretary, Proportional 

 Representation Society). Proportional Representation. 

 A Study in Methods of Election. 



(London: Methuen <€• Co. Ltd., 1911, xxii.y 

 400 pp., Svo.J 



There are numerous references to the Acts of 1896 

 and 1907, the elections held under them, and the report 

 on the election of 1909 (see index, p. 399). 



1912. 



30. H. E. Packer, Chief Electoral Officer for the State 

 of Tasmania; E, L. Piesse, Assistant Returning Officer 

 for the Districts of Denison and Franklin; J. F. Daly, 

 Chief Clerk in the Electoral Department, Tasmania. Gen- 

 eral Election for House of Assembly, April 30, 1912. 

 Report, 14 pp. and 5 folded result-sheets. Fo. 



(In Papers of the Parliament of Tasmania. Vol. 

 LVIL, 1912, No. 11.) 



Changes in electoral law since 1909. Conduct of the 

 election. Informal ballot-papers. Proportional repre- 

 sentation of the parties. The smallness of the majority; 

 electorates returning an odd number of memhers desir- 

 able. Losses by parties OA\ing to short-voting and 

 cross-voting. Postal ballot-papers. 



Appendix: Table I. Number of Electors on Rolls 

 and Number who Voted, with certain Percentages : Com- 

 parison with previous Elections; Table II. The No. 1 

 Choices obtained by the Candidates of each Party; 

 Table III. Informal Ballot-papers : Number and Per- 

 centage : Comparison with previous Elections ; Table IV. 

 Votes lost by Parties through Voters not marking a 

 Preference for each Candidate of their Party; Table V. 

 Votes lost by Parties through Cross-voting ; Table VI. 

 Postal Votes: Comparison with previous Elections. 

 Result-sheets for Bass, Darwin, Denison, Franklin, and 

 Wilmot. 



31. Australia: Commonwealth Bureau of Census and 

 Statistics, Melbourne. Official Year-Book of the Common- 

 wealth of Australia, No. 5, 1912. 



fCommonvjealth Bureau of Census and Statistics ^ 

 Melbourne, 1912, xl, 1278 pp., 8vo.) 



A summary of the rules for voting and conducting 

 the scrutiny according to the electoral law of Tasmania, 

 pp. 1213-6. 



