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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)

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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