Definitions
2 Definitions
In this Schedule—
absolute majority of votes means a greater number than one-half of the whole number of ballot-papers other than informal and exhausted ballot-papers.
continuing candidate means a candidate not already elected or excluded from the count.
exhausted ballot-paper means a ballot-paper on which there is no indication of a next preference for a continuing candidate.
next preference means the first of the subsequent preferences marked on a ballot-paper that is not given to an elected or excluded candidate. However, if there is a repetition or omission in the consecutive numbering of preferences marked on a ballot-paper (other than a repetition or omission that makes the ballot-paper informal), only those preferences preceding the repetition or omission can be taken into account.
unrejected ballot-papers means all ballot-papers not rejected as informal.
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