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
- Brendan Molloy
- David W. Campbell
Queensland
- Melanie Thomas
- 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
- 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
- Joseph Miles
- 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.
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
Brendan Molloy
|
David Campbell
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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
Geoffrey Hammett
|
Joseph Miles
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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
George Shannon
|
Liam Pomfret
|
Melanie Thomas
|
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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:
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- MD5:
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- SHA1:
- Ballot data [12 KB]
- SHA1:
1e42ebf0360b5c58c7469704c3672259df759358
- MD5:
b918552a2efe4e1384ed253ead009913
- SHA1:
Great results. Thanks for collating it all nicely.
Awesome that you used Approval Voting.
We done! Thank you for posting the info.