The return to a full preferential voting system in Queensland might increase informal voting and backfire on Labor. (theconversation.com)
People are not supposed to win preferential voting system elections in the first round and he smashed his opponents, winning in all three categories of voters. (totalpolitics.com)
Although their official report isn't due to be published until the 23rd of April, on Wednesday the Guardian reported that the Joint Committee on Lords Reform has decided to back an «open preferential voting system» rather than the government's preferred Single Transferable Vote (STV) for electing members to a reformed House of Lords. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)