How did below-the-line voting perform in Victoria?
I spent a lot of energy before the Victorian election talking about below the line voting – encouraging voters to use the method and analysing its impact on previous elections. We now have all the data to assess how things went. While the below-the-line rate reached a new record, it wasn’t that much above last election, and suggests that it will be hard to see the rate reaching much higher under the current system.
The overall rate reached 9.4%, up from 8.8% in 2018.