The results of Pirate Party Australia’s recent Policy and Preselection Meeting are in!

Pirate Party Australia held a meeting on April 6–7 in Sydney for the purposes of amending and adopting policies, and deciding preselection nominees for the 2013 Federal Election. The results of the now concluded week-long voting period can now be announced.

The results of the motions relating to policy are as follows:

• Motion 1: Copyright policy — passed with 100% in favour
• Motion 2: Patents policy — passed with 98.81% in favour
• Motion 3: Digital liberties policy — passed with 99.61% in favour.
• Motion 4: Energy policy — passed with 88.02% in favour.
• Motion 5: Coal seam gas policy — passed with 88.65% in favour.
• Motion 6: Taxation policy — passed with 90% in favour.
• Motion 7: Transfer payments (welfare) policy — passed with 89.61% in favour.
• Motion 8: Drug policy — passed with 92.08% in favour.
• Motion 9: Marriage policy — passed with 92.18% in favour.
• Motion 10: Bill of rights policy — passed with 93.52% in favour.
• Motion 11: Improving electoral participation — passed with 97.54% in favour.

All preselection nominees passed the approval vote by the members in their state, and will appear on the ballot in the order listed.

New South Wales

1. Brendan Molloy
2. David W. Campbell

Queensland

1. Melanie Thomas
2. Liam Pomfret

A third nominee, George Shannon, achieved majority support from the Queensland members but was unfortunately the least preferred candidate and so will not appear on the ballot.

Tasmania

1. Thomas Randle

As Thomas was the only nominee from Tasmania, a running mate is needed for him to ensure that Pirate Party Australia has its own grouping on the ballot. Please consider nominating yourself if you can support him as a “warm body” candidate.

Victoria

1. Joseph Miles
2. Geoffrey Hammett

Additional nominees as well as further policy amendments will be discussed at the Party’s National Congress, details of which will be announced four weeks before the event.

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Breakdown of votes:

Policies

Motion 1: Y:253 N:0 A:6 [100.00%]
Motion 2: Y:250 N:3 A:6 [98.81%]
Motion 3: Y:253 N:1 A:5 [99.61%]
Motion 4: Y:213 N:29 A:15 [88.02%]
Motion 5: Y:203 N:26 A:30 [88.65%]
Motion 6: Y:216 N:24 A:19 [90.00%]
Motion 7: Y:207 N:24 A:28 [89.61%]
Motion 8: Y:221 N:19 A:19 [92.08%]
Motion 9: Y:224 N:19 A:15 [92.18%]
Motion 10: Y:231 N:16 A:12 [93.52%]
Motion 11: Y:238 N:6 A:15 [97.54%]

Senate Candidates

As per the by-law governing preselection, approval voting phase will be used for determining whether or not a candidate has sufficient support to be placed on the ticket, and preferential voting phase will be used for ordering the candidates on the ticket should they pass the first phase.

NSW Senate Candidates

Phase 1 — Approval

David Campbell: Y:74 N:9 [89.16%]
Brendan Molloy: Y:69 N:14 [83.13%]
All candidates pass approval phase.

Phase 2 — Rankings

The horizontal axis is compared with the vertical axis to see who is the most preferred candidate. The ranking order is determined by the candidates with the most green squares.

	Brendan Molloy	David Campbell
Brendan Molloy		37
David Campbell	27

Rankings:
(1) Brendan Molloy
(2) David Campbell

Victoria Senate Candidates

Phase 1 — Approval

Geoffrey Hammett: Y:37 N:14 [72.55%]
Joseph Miles: Y:44 N:7 [86.27%]
All candidates pass approval phase.

Phase 2 — Rankings

The horizontal axis is compared with the vertical axis to see who is the most preferred candidate. The ranking order is determined by the candidates with the most green squares.

	Geoffrey Hammett	Joseph Miles
Geoffrey Hammett		14
Joseph Miles	25

Rankings:
(1) Joseph Miles
(2) Geoffrey Hammett

Queensland Senate Candidates

Phase 1 — Approval

Liam Pomfret: Y:40 N:4 [90.91%]
Melanie Thomas: Y:38 N:6 [86.36%]
George Shannon: Y:28 N:16 [63.64%]
All candidates pass approval phase.

Phase 2 — Rankings

The horizontal axis is compared with the vertical axis to see who is the most preferred candidate. The ranking order is determined by the candidates with the most green squares.

	George Shannon	Liam Pomfret	Melanie Thomas
George Shannon		7	7
Liam Pomfret	29		17
Melanie Thomas	30	19

Rankings:
(1) Melanie Thomas
(2) Liam Pomfret
(3) George Shannon

Tasmania Senate Candidates

Phase 1 — Approval

Thomas Randle: Y:4 N:0 [100.00%]
All candidates pass approval phase.

Phase 2 — Rankings

As there is only one candidate, he defaults to first position.

Datasets

These are the raw datasets exported from the Mongo database. The participants object has been stripped from the elections data for privacy reasons, but the token list remains intact.

The utilities for counting the motions and calculating the elections can be found here. Use ppm2013_motions.py to verify the motions and ppm2013_elections.py to calculate the elections.

The source code for the voting system can be found here.

• Election data [200 KB]
  • SHA1: 9537bcb571ac93bd5a82dc03c6d5ca9b7012200a
  • MD5: 56d8651d7fab6543fe407245c77c3d0f
• Ballot data [12 KB]
  • SHA1: 1e42ebf0360b5c58c7469704c3672259df759358
  • MD5: b918552a2efe4e1384ed253ead009913