64 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION, 



R.S. TAS. 



VI. If at any time after the first counting of the votes 

 it becomes necessary to exclude the lowest candi- 

 date from the poll as hereinafter directed, and it 

 shall be found that two or more candidates have the 

 same number of votes and occupy together the 

 lowest position on the poll, then and in every such 

 case whichever one of such candidates was found 

 to have received the least number of first prefer- 

 ence votes shall be deemed to be the lowest on the 

 poll ; and if at any time it becomes necessary to 

 exclude from the poll one or more of any number 

 of candidates who have received the same number 

 of votes upon the first counting of the ballot-papers, 

 the returning officer shall decide which one or more 

 of such candidates shall be excluded from the poll. 

 VII. When, by successive applications of the directions 

 hereinafter contained, the number of candidates is 

 reduced to the number of members to be elected, 

 the candidates constituting such reduced number 

 shall be declared elected. 



Clause 128. In the case of any electoral district for which 

 more than one candidate is to be elected, and there is more 

 than one polling-place, the Returning Officer General, as soon 

 as he shall have received the full reports of the deputy return- 

 ing officers (to be transmitted to him as hereinbefore directed) 

 showing the total number of preference votes, 1, 2, and 3 

 respectively, polled in every district polling-place at such 

 election in respect of each candidate shall proceed as fol- 

 lows : — 



I. He shall first compute and ascertain the total num- 

 ber of first preference votes polled at such election, 

 and shall divide such total number by the number 

 of members to be returned for such district, reject- 

 ing any fractional remainder which may appear 

 after such division, and the number of the said 

 quotient found by such division shall be the quota 

 or number of votes entitling the candidates respect- 

 ively for whom such quota shall be given to be 

 returned at the said election as members to serve in 

 Parliament : 



II. He shall then proceed to compute the number of 1st, 

 2nd, and 3rd preference votes recorded in favour of 

 each candidate, and every candidate who has a 

 number of first preference votes equal to, or greater 

 than, the quota shall l)e declared elected. 



III. As many first preference votes for any one candi- 

 date as are in excess of the quota shall, in the man- 

 ner hereinafter directed, be counted for other candi- 

 dates who have not received a quota as hereinafter 

 provided, and the Returning Officer General shall then 

 severally transfer such excess first preference votes 

 to such candidates, and the votes thus transferred 

 shall be deemed to have been given for the candi- 

 date to whom they shall be transferred as herein- 

 after directed, and* shall be deemed to be first votes. 

 All excess votes transferred as directed by this sub- 

 section are hereinafter referred to as transfer excess 

 votes of the first order : 



