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CurrentVoting system for election of councillors
Chapter 10How are people elected to civic office?
Part 3What is the system of election?
285 Voting system for election of councillors
The voting system in a contested election of a councillor or councillors is to be—
(a)
optional preferential, if only one councillor is to be elected, or
(b)
proportional, if 2 or more councillors are to be elected.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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