Australian Senate Political Preferences allocated by each party in each state/territory — for the election of 7 Sep 2013
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- Navigate this page:
- 1. Northern Territory — also with worked examples
- Worked examples — sorting on the nominated preference-lists of the two main parties
- Another Worked Example — for the list offered by the Greens
- Error if we accidentally use a “Text-Sort” instead of a Numerical Sort
of version 8 — 31/3/14 printed: Australian Senate Political Preferences allocated by each party in each state/territory — for the election of 7 Sep 2013 1. Northern Territory — also with worked examples
This is the simplest case, so it serves as a useful introduction. Note that: (1) Each column depicts how the Party-in-the-Heading will allocate preferences if you vote for it “above the line” E.g. the Palmer U.P. will first favour its own two candidates, then give 3rd (& 4th) place to Country Liberals; etc. That is best seen by sorting the rows accordingly — and we’ll come to that in (6),ff. But here they are in ballot-paper order (which has its own uses). (2) In each of the two territories (unlike the states), there are only 2 senators to be elected, so there is no point in offering more than 2 candidates for each party — which partly explains the comparative simplicity. [Meanwhile each state elects six senators for a double term — while another six senators continue unopposed, following after their 1st term, (except in a “Double Dissolution”)] (3) Party “H” has a split ticket (H1+H2) which enables it here to treat the two main parties (E and F) equally. Meanwhile Party “C” does the same for E, F, and K. Other more complex variants are sometimes used. (4) These tables are a condensed version of data provided by the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission. The idea is (i) to fit the essentials for each state/territory onto a single page; and (ii) make it easy to computer-sort the data in various ways. (5) Source. That original material can be found on the AEC website (in 2013), by going to:
(6) overleaf: CONTENTS (version 8) 1. Northern Territory — also with worked examples 1 2. Australian Capital Territory, (ACT) 5 3. Tasmania 6 4. Western Australia, (WA) — Before the re-run (See the note below) 7 5. South Australia, (SA) 9 6. Queensland, (Qld) 10 7. Victoria 11 8. NSW (part 1) … 12 9. NSW (part 2) 13 10. Some previous election preference-figures 15 11. Ondwelle’s involvement in Social & Biological “unsolvables” 15
(6) Sorting. Some worked examples of re-sorting this NT table appear below, but the essentials are (at least within a “Windows” system): (a) Copy “read only” material into your own file. Select the whole table (but only the table); either using the mouse only, or by selecting just some substantial part of the table and then keying: alt(A, then C, then T). Then (b) Choose “sort”, e.g. via the “Table” menu — which will (if “header row” is set) produce a panel for you to make your choice between the various parties in the column-headings. (c) Select the party you are investigating, via the menu at the top left corner of the menu-panel (which has a list of the column-headings) — making sure it is offering a numerical sort — then press “OK”. This should do the sort for you. (d) Other choices: (which do use the text-sort setting): ●You can restore the original ballot-paper sequence by selecting the 3rd column — (“Party’s Code”); and ● you can get an alphabetical list of parties (and separately of any “ungrouped, UG” non-party independents) by selecting the 2nd column — (“Party” instead of any individual party name). Worked examples — sorting on the nominated preference-lists of the two main parties
Another Worked Example — for the list offered by the Greens
Error if we accidentally use a “Text-Sort” instead of a Numerical Sort
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