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Legislative Council Elections Election Deposits
Table C
Existing amount of election deposit
Proposed amount of election deposit
GCs which use the "first past the post" voting system
$10,000
$20,000
UC. RC and Rural
$10,000
$20,000
FCs which use the
Preferential
Elimination Voting
system
Existing threshold for forfeiture of election deposit
3% of total number of valld voles cast
5% of the total number of valid first-preference votes cast, or 5% of the aggregate of the preference votes cast, as the case may be
5% of the total number of valld first-preference voles cast, or 5% of the aggregate of the preference
votes, as the case may be
Proposed threshold for forfeiture of election deposil
5% of total number of valid votes cast
5% of the total number of valid first-preference votes cast (to simply the calculation and make it more easily understood, only first- preference votes would be counted)
5% of total number of valid votes cast
Other Old FC,
$10,000
$20,000
which use the "first
past the post" voting
system (previously
they used the
Preferential
Elimination Voting
system)
New FCs which use
N/A
$20,000
the "first past the
post" voling system
ECC which uses the
N/A
$20,000
N/A
Single Transferable
Vote ("STV")
System
P4217(11)
End/Wednesday, May 24, 1995
N/A
5% of total number of vaild votes cast
(i) for general elections
- 2.5% of the total
number of valid first- preference votes
(li) for by-elections - 5%
of the total number of valid first- preference votes cast