Geography and Election Results
Disproportionality and Bias at the 1993-2004 Elections to the Australian House of Representatives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5877376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ron Johnston (0000-0003-3031-8573, University of Bristol, corresponding author), James Forrest (0000-0002-1103-5757, Macquarie University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 95-108 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-5863 • E-ISSN: 1745-5871 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2009.00573.x |
| OpenAlex | W2075055110 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
The Alternative Vote system used for elections to the Australian House of Representatives is generally believed to disadvantage the Australian Labor Party in contests with the Liberal and National parties. However, most analyses on which such conclusions are based over-simplify the situation by not separating out the translation of votes into seats according to whether the election outcome in a district is determined using the first-preference or two-party preferred (2PP) votes. Analyses of bias at five recent elections which recognise that separation find little bias against either party in the districts where the determination used the 2PP votes (i.e. no candidate received a majority of the first preferences), but considerable bias in those where the outcome was decided on first-preferences. Furthermore, that bias was not in one direction, but rather favoured the largest party in each of those contests. The reason for this is identified in the geography of support for the two parties, which produces the equivalent of a 'cracked gerrymander' in sufficient districts to have a significant impact on the outcome
Demographic economics · Disadvantage · Economics · General election · Geography · House of Representatives · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Preference · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Systems and Governance
Seats, Votes, and the Spatial Organization of Elections
Disproportionality and Bias in the Results of the 2005 General Election in Great Britain
Electoral Distortion in New Zealand
Under‐Representation and Electoral Prediction
The Myth of Non-Partisan Cartography
The Myth of Non-Partisan Cartography
The Myth of Non-Partisan Cartography
Malapportionment”—Australian style
Two‐party preferred’
The Butler Analysis and the Cube Law
The Analysis of Distorted Representation in Two-Party Single-Member Elections
The Relation of Votes to Seats in Elections for the Australian House of Representatives, 1949-1954
Spatial Structure, Plurality Systems, and Electoral Bias
Constituency delimitation and the unintentional gerrymander in Brisbane
The Decomposition of Electoral Bias in a Plurality Election
Measuring Electoral Bias
If it isn't a gerrymander, what is it
Manipulating maps and winning elections
The Effectiveness of Constituency Campaign Spending in Australian State Elections during Times of Electoral Volatility
Integrating and decomposing the sources of partisan bias
Proportionality, disproportionality and electoral systems
Determinants of disproportionality and wasted votes
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |