Prescribed particulars for election or ballot result reports—s 118 and Act, ss 676 and 818
34 Prescribed particulars for election or ballot result reports—s 118 and Act, ss 676 and 818
This section—
sets out the particulars for section 118; and
prescribes the particulars for an election result report under section 676 or 818 of the Act.
The particulars are as follows—
how many ballot papers were printed;
how many eligible members were on the roll for the election or ballot, including a supplementary roll;
how many ballot papers were given;
how many duplicate ballot papers were given;
how many ballot papers were not given;
how many ballot papers were returned other than as unclaimed mail;
how many ballot papers were returned as unclaimed mail;
how many ballot papers were not returned;
how many votes were informal;
how many votes were rejected for a reason other than being informal and the reason for each rejection;Examples of reasons for rejection—For a postal vote, the voter’s voting declaration was—
not filled in or signed; or
not put in the return envelope; or
taken from the return envelope before the manager of the ballot received the return envelope.
how many ballot papers were counted;
the percentage of voters who voted;
how many formal votes were—
for an election—for each candidate; or
for a proposed amalgamation or withdrawal—for and against the proposal;
if a preferential system of voting is used for an election—how many formal votes were for each candidate after distribution of preferences;
if the report is a ballot result report under section 118 and votes about an alternative amalgamation were counted under section 114(2)—
the number of votes for and against the alternative amalgamation; and
the number of votes that were informal.
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