[EM] Reply to David Catchpole

[Donald E Davison]

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David Catchpole,

     Thank you for trying to find the numbers.
     If we can find the number of votes each of 21 winning candidates
received, then it is possible to determine the number of exhausted and
wasted votes.
     We already know the total number of voters.
     I would also like to know if the voters are required to make a certain
number of choices.

Thank you again,
Donald
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>Australian Electoral Commissions have a nasty habit of publishing
>bugger-all details on the web. I'll try to find the statistical returns
>in my university library today.
>
>Another opportunity to observe large STV elections is coming up with the
>NSW Local Government elections. Any details you receive on these would be
>from individual councils' webpages. A place to start would be
>http://www.nsw.gov.au . An example- Sydney City Council, a
>geographically small (well, at least compared to Brisbane) inner-city
>authority, has more than one hundred candidates.
>
>On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Donald E Davison wrote:
>