New South Wales Senate Ballot, Australian Federal Election 2013
Note that you are looking at senate ballots from an earlier election! The Western Australia ballot for the 2014 election is available here.
Use this form below to help plan your senate vote in the 2013 federal election.
Once you are happy with your preferences, click the Download PDF or Download one page PDF button to generate a printable version of the ballot paper with preferences that you can bring to the polling booth on election day. Note that choosing this will send your currently selected preferences to the server in order to generate the PDF. This information will never be stored on the server or used in any way beyond generating the PDF. If you are concerned about this, print out a blank ballot (or one page version) and then write down your preferences on it.
If you want to save your progress and come back to this form later, simply bookmark the current page. The bookmark will be a link for this page with your currently selected preferences. This information isn’t sent to the server — the preferences are purely stored in the bookmark address. If you make further changes after bookmarking, they won’t be automatically saved, so don’t forget to bookmark again afterwards!
You should preference all of the candidates when voting below the line to ensure that your vote is formal and will count.
HINT → Not sure where to start? You can begin with a party’s registered preferences by switching to Ballot view (selecting from the drop down that appears to the right of the Clear button), clicking a “1” above the line, then switching back to List view to reorder them.
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You still have not assigned preferences to some candidates.Your vote is formal.List view
Use the mouse to drag candidates from the unpreferenced list on the right to the preferenced list on the left in the desired preference order. Click on the little triangles to expand and collapse groups.
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Preferenced candidates
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Unpreferenced candidates · sort by group name
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Ballot view
Click a box above the line to fill in the ballot with that group’s registered preferences. If the group has multiple tickets registered, keep clicking the box to cycle through them. To assign the next unused preference to a candidate, click his or her box below the line. Click the box again to remove the preference. The small green and red arrow buttons can be used to move a candidate or a whole group up and down the preference order.
Query view
This view lets you perform a query on the registered group voting tickets.
Query:
Candidate:
Note that ungrouped, independent candidates will not appear in this list since they do not have registered group voting tickets. Preferences for groups with multiple tickets are averaged.
Candidate:
Note that ungrouped, independent candidates will not appear in this list since they do not have registered group voting tickets. Preferences for groups with multiple tickets are averaged.