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Briefing Paper No. 04/1999 by Antony Green
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This paper contains a summary of the 1999 New South Wales election. It contains
details of voting for all Legislative Assembly districts, as well as primary
votes for the Legislative Council. A summary of the 1998 electoral
redistribution is also included to assist in understanding the results, and
there are several tables analysing the distribution of preferences in the
Legislative Assembly, and the impact of optional preferential voting.
For each Legislative Assembly electorate, full details of primary and
two-candidate preferred votes are provided. Where appropriate, a two-party
preferred count is also provided. (See note on two-candidate and two-party
preferred vote below). The format and calculations used in the electorate
results are as follows.
First Count: The votes shown for each candidate are the total primary
votes received. Percentage votes are calculated as a percentage of the formal
vote for each electorate. Swing is calculated by subtracting the percentage
vote received by a party at the previous election (adjusted for the new
electoral boundaries) from the percentage received at the current election.
Where the parties contesting the district differ from the previous election,
ghost' candidates (indicated by "....") have been included
representing candidates not contesting the current election. As a result, all
primary swings add to zero, subject to rounding errors.
Final Count: Represents the two-candidate preferred count after the
final distribution of preferences in an electorate. All votes that did not
indicate a preference to the two remaining candidates are included in the total
listed as Exhausted. Two-candidate preferred percentages are calculated by
dividing the two-candidate preferred vote by the votes remaining in the count,
that is the formal vote minus the exhausted vote. Two-candidate preferred
swings are shown compared to the previous election, adjusted for the
redistribution. Where the party composition of the final two candidates differ
from the previous election (e.g. Albury), a ghost candidate appears, and three
swing figures are shown. A two-party preferred count is also provided in these
electorates.