Electoral System Of Australia
The Australian electoral system has evolved over the last 150 years of democratic government, with the Australian Parliament established by 1901. The present day federal parliament has a number of distinctive features including compulsory voting, with full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect the lower house, the Australian House of Representatives, and the use of group ticket single transferable proportional voting to elect the upper house, the Australian Senate.
Read more about Electoral System Of Australia: Compulsory Voting, Preferential Voting, Gerrymandering and Malapportionment, The Parliament, The House of Representatives, The Senate, Double Dissolutions, Nominations
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