New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 167

167 Periodic Council elections--votes recorded in group voting squares

(1) This section applies only to periodic Council elections.

(2) If a voter records a vote on a ballot paper by placing the number "1" in the group voting square for one of the groups, the ballot paper is taken to have recorded on it--

(a) a first preference vote for the first candidate included in the group, and

(b) subsequent preferences for all other candidates included in the group in the order of the names of the candidates on the ballot paper.

(3) If the voter also records a vote on the ballot paper by placing a subsequent number or numbers in the group voting squares for other groups, the ballot paper is taken to have recorded on it preferences (subsequent to those referred to in subsection (2)) for the candidates included in those other groups--

(a) in the order in which those groups are numbered by the voter, and

(b) within each group, in the order in which the names of the candidates in that group appear on the ballot paper.