| 21. | A number of controversies surrounded the failure to introduce preferential votes favouring gender equality.
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| 22. | This was primarily because the NSW State Electoral Commission uses an optional preferential voting system.
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| 23. | The proposed change would have reduced the number of preferential votes from three to one.
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| 24. | Preferential voting was first put to use in the William Gibson of the Victorian Farmers Union.
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| 25. | This system remained in place until changes to the Constitution in 1980 re-introduced optional preferential voting.
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| 26. | To prevent the situation from reoccurring, the government changed the voting system to the preferential vote.
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| 27. | Latham may still have an advantage in Australia's preferential voting system, according to the latest poll.
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| 28. | The Legislative Assembly today has 59 members, elected for four-year terms from single-member preferential voting system.
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| 29. | In preferential votes, which is more than all the other candidates who participated in this election.
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| 30. | The first candidate on the list is not required to receive preferential votes to be elected.
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