Preferences & Two-Party-Preferred Votes

The two-party-preferred statistic is the only valid means of measuring the support of candidates and parties from election to election.

• How Important Are Preferences In Australian Elections?
  • How-To-Vote Cards
  • Pictures of How-To-Vote Cards

• An explanation of the Two-Party-Preferred Vote
  • Two-Party-Preferred Statistics - 1949-2004 - a table of the national two-party statistics in Australian federal elections since Menzies' second term as PM.

  • 1984-1998 State-by-State - a detailed look at two-party statistics in each state in the federal elections of 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996 and 1998.

  • 1998 Two Party Statistics
    • NSW, Vic, Qld, SA, WA, Tas, ACT, NT
  • 1996 Two Party Statistics
  • 1993 Two Party Statistics
  • 1990 Two Party Statistics

• Exaggerated Majorities - a consequence of preferential voting is the phenomenon of exaggerated majorities, whereby the proportion of seats won by the winning side exceeds the proportion of votes it secured.

• Primary Vote leads overturned after preferences: 2001 or 1998 or 1996

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