Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1992 No. 259 POLITICAL BROADCASTS (STATE AND TERRITORY ELECTIONS) REGULATIONS - REG 7

7. (1) A represented party's voting share in relation to an election is the
sum of the votes received by the represented party at the previous election.

(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1), the sum of the votes received by a
represented party at the previous election is the number of votes received by
the represented party plus or minus the number of votes (if any) added to or
deducted from that number under subregulation (3).

(3) If a Member of a Parliament was a member of a represented party (the

"current party") in the Parliament immediately before the end of its last
sittings held before an election to the Parliament, but was not elected as a
candidate for the current party, then in calculating the voting share of the
current party or of another represented party:

   (a)  if the Member was elected at the previous election as an independent
        candidate-the Member's votes received at the previous election must be
        added to the votes received by the current party; or

   (b)  if the Member was elected at the previous election as a candidate for
another represented party (the "former party") the number of votes received at
the previous election by the former party must be divided by the number of
candidates for the former party elected to the Parliament and the resulting
number of votes:

        (i)    added to the votes received by the current party; and

        (ii)   deducted from the votes received by the former party.

(4) Subregulation (3) applies to a Member referred to in that subregulation
whether or not the Member is contesting the election.