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VOTING & ELECTIONS INDEX

Introduction

Electoral System Features
- Overview
- Compulsory Voting
- Franchise
- Enrolment
- Secret Ballots
- Votes for Women
- Primary Votes
- Informal Votes
- Donkey Votes

Voting Systems
- Preferential
- Proportional
- First-Past-The-Post

Electoral Laws
- A.E.C.
- Cwlth Electoral Act

Election Dates

Election Timetable

Election Costs & Funding

Federal Election Results

Federal Elections
2007 - 2004 - 2001
1998 - 1996 - 1993
1990 - 1987 - 1984
1983 - 1980 - 1977
1975 - 1974 - 1972

By-Elections

State Elections

Electoral Reform

Voting Behaviour

Recent News Items
- Electoral System
- Elections
- 2007 Election

Elections Quiz

Voting and Elections

Quiz 1

1	How many House of Representatives elections have been held in Australia since 1901?
2	Which month has been most popular for House of Representatives elections?
3	In which months have there never been House elections?
4	How many Double Dissolution elections have there been since 1901?
5	How many double dissolutions have resulted in the re-election of the government?
6	When was Proportional Voting introduced to the Senate and by which government?
7	*When were Aborigines compulsorily required to enrol and* vote in Federal Elections?**
8	When was the last time a separate half-Senate election was held in Australia?
9	At which 5 elections since 1950 have the winning parties failed to secure a majority of the two-party-preferred vote?
10	At which election since 1980 has the highest percentage of House of Representatives informal votes been recorded?

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