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What is preferential voting and how does it work? Your guide to making your vote count

  • Written by Robert Hortle, Deputy Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania

For each Australian federal election, there are two different ways you get to vote.

Whether you vote early, by post or on polling day on May 3, each eligible voter will be given two ballot papers: one for the House of Representatives (the “lower house”) and one for the Senate (the “upper house”). Each of these two ballots...

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