Malapportionment

Question 1

What does malapportionment seek to prevent

Answer 1

The values of citizens’ votes must be equal to fulfil the operating principles of a liberal democracy.

The principle of one vote, one value is fundamental for the equality of the political right to vote.

Question 2

What is malapportionment

Answer 2

Where an electorate size is too large in comparison to another can cause malapportionment.

electoral system where different electorates have large differences in the number of voters in them.

Question 3

What does the AEC about malapportionment

Answer 3

This is tempered by the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 which requires that electorates be within 10% of the average elector population within a state or territory

The AEC will redistribute electorates if more than 1/3 of division of the state deviates from the average enrolment in the state or territory by more than plus or minus 10%.

Question 4

The House of Representatives increased from

Answer 4

by one seat from 150 to 151 due to population growth in the 2019 election.