Western Australian Current Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 4.69

4.69 .         How to vote

        (1)         This section sets out how votes are cast at an election.

        (2)         An elector must cast 1 first-preference vote by writing on the ballot paper the numeral 1 in the square opposite the name of the candidate for whom the elector votes as the elector’s first preference.

        (3)         If there are 2 or more other candidates, the elector may cast preference votes by writing consecutive numerals from 2 (without repetition of any numeral) in the squares opposite the names of other candidates to indicate the order of the elector’s preference for those other candidates.

        (4)         The elector —

            (a)         may cast preference votes under subsection (3) for 1 or more of the other candidates; and

            (b)         does not have to cast preference votes for all of the other candidates.

        (5)         Regulations made for the purposes of section 4.71(1)(a) must provide for ballot papers to have squares opposite the names of candidates for the purpose of giving effect to subsections (2) and (3).

        [Section 4.69 inserted: No. 11 of 2023 s. 45.]