☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>Day 32 cont 🗳️</p><p>Take care <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a>, make your <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Preferences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preferences</span></a> count. ⚠️</p><p>“Preferences have become more important than ever in Australian elections, as the share of people supporting the major parties has dropped from more than 90% of primary votes in the 1950s to just 68.8% in the most recent federal poll.</p><p>The last Australian election saw 16 seats won by candidates who were not leading after the first count – the most ever, tied with 2016. And more than half of those winners were independent candidates – also the most ever.</p><p>Australia’s electoral system requires <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voters</span></a> to <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/number" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>number</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/candidates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>candidates</span></a> in their order of preference: their first choice, second choice and so on. During <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/counting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>counting</span></a>, if no candidate has yet achieved a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/majority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>majority</span></a>, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and their votes are redistributed to voters’ next <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/preference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preference</span></a>. This is repeated until there is a clear winner.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/2025/may/01/how-do-preferences-work-voting-party-australia-federal-election-liberal-greens-labor" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/datablog/2025/may/01/how-do-preferences-work-voting-party-australia-federal-election-liberal-greens-labor</span></a>></p>