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Report on the Conduct of the 2019 NSW State Election Report on the conduct of the 2019 NSW State election Part one About this report The report is written in two parts. Part one provides an overview of the 2019 NSW State election conducted by the NSW Electoral Commissioner. It includes the declared results, commentary on voting trends, election services provided by the Electoral Commission, technological innovations, staffing and an overview of the financial management of the election. Part one reviews the work and activities of the Electoral Commission statutory authority, which is responsible for the administration and enforcement of the Electoral Funding Act 2018 and the enforcement of the Electoral Act 2017. This work, as it relates to the election, includes the registration of candidates, groups and third-party campaigners for campaign finance regulation purposes, the public funding of election campaigns of political parties and candidates and compliance operations undertaken during the election. Part one also includes recommendations for reform arising from the Electoral Commission’s experience in conducting the election. The Electoral Commission’s actions in response to relevant recommendations made by the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters (JSCEM) in its Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral matters – Administration of the 2015 NSW election and related matters, are summarised in Appendix A. Part two provides information about each of the 93 electoral districts in New South Wales, including data on enrolment, vote types, staffing, venues and candidates for the 2019 NSW State election. In some districts, the number of registered candidates is not the same as the number of candidates who nominated. This is because some candidates registered for the purposes of accepting political donations or making payments for electoral expenditure as required by the Electoral Funding Act 2018 but were not nominated as a candidate under the Electoral Act 2017 and therefore did not contest the election. Under the Electoral Funding Act 2018, the political donations and electoral expenditure of these candidates must be managed and disclosed in the same way as those candidates who were successfully nominated for the election. This report is supported by an independent research report from Colmar Brunton, which contains the measurement and evaluation of the satisfaction of election participants with the NSW Electoral Commission’s conduct of the 2019 State election and the services offered. ISSN 1835-3312 (Print) ISSN 1835-3282 (Online) Copyright © State of New South Wales through the New South Wales (NSW) Electoral Commission 2019. No part of this report may be reproduced by any process, except in accordance with the Copyright Act 1968. Please address all enquiries to the NSW Electoral Commission. The term iVote refers to the iVote internet and telephone voting system. iVote® is a registered trade mark of the State of New South Wales (NSW Electoral Commission). This report was produced using internal resources, and can be downloaded from elections.nsw.gov.au NSW Electoral Commission Address: Level 25, 201 Kent Street, SYDNEY NSW 2000 Postal: GPO Box 832, SYDNEY NSW 2001 Office hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm T: +61 2 9290 5999 | F: +61 2 9290 5991 | elections.nsw.gov.au 1 Contents Foreword from the Electoral Commissioner ...............................................................................................................6 About the NSW Electoral Commission ..........................................................................................................................7 Relationship to Parliament ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 2019 NSW State election at a glance .............................................................................................................................8 Election results ......................................................................................................................................................................9 NSW State election, 23 March 2019 ...................................................................................................................................... 9 The new legislative framework ..................................................................................................................................... 11 The Electoral Act 2017 ............................................................................................................................................................... 11 The Electoral Funding Act 2018 ............................................................................................................................................... 12 Summary of new measures introduced for the 2019 election ............................................................................ 13 Online disclosure of pre-election donations ..................................................................................................................... 13 Online registers of candidates and third-party campaigners ..................................................................................... 13 Centralised vote count centres ............................................................................................................................................. 13 Online nominations .................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Online registration of electoral material ........................................................................................................................... 13 Preliminary scrutiny for postal voting ................................................................................................................................ 14 Closer engagement with other agencies to support a safe and secure election.................................................. 14 Summary of proposals for legislative or policy change by Government .......................................................... 15 Legislative Council ballot paper scanning .......................................................................................................................... 15 A voting period rather than an election day ..................................................................................................................... 15 Postal vote savings provision ................................................................................................................................................. 15 Size of Legislative Council ballot paper .............................................................................................................................. 15 Clarifying expenditure rules for overlapping federal and State election campaigns ......................................... 15 CPI adjustment of public funding amounts for the Election Campaigns Fund ..................................................... 16 Funding model redesign ........................................................................................................................................................... 16 Summary of proposals for administrative change by the Electoral Commission .......................................... 17 iVote self-service password reset ........................................................................................................................................ 17 Shorter iVote application period........................................................................................................................................... 17 Automated postal vote applications communication .................................................................................................... 17 Further provision of all-district voting centres ............................................................................................................... 17 Conduct of the initial Legislative Council count .............................................................................................................. 17 Key dates during the election period .......................................................................................................................... 18 Statistical overview of the 2019 NSW election ....................................................................................................... 19 Voters – enrolment and voting channels ........................................................................................................................... 19 Political participants – registrations and nominations ................................................................................................. 20 2 NSW Electoral Commission | Report on the conduct of the 2019 NSW State election Part one NSW State election trends ............................................................................................................................................. 23 Voter trends – enrolment and turnout ................................................................................................................................23 Metro, regional and country trends ......................................................................................................................................27 Political participant trends –
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