New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 138

138 Election information

(1) After an election, the Commission must ensure that the following information is publicly available:

(a) the number of first preference votes given for each candidate,

(b) in relation to a periodic Council election-the number of first preference votes given for each group,

(c) the details of distribution of preference votes.

(2) After an election, the Commission must ensure that:

(a) each registered party that so requests, and

(b) each member of Parliament who is not a member of a registered party and who makes a request in respect of the member’s district,

is provided with election information containing the names and the addresses of electors who voted (other than silent electors and itinerant electors), whether they voted personally or by post and, if they voted at a polling place for the district for which the electors were enrolled, the location of that polling place.

(2A) In subsection (2), a reference to a polling place includes a reference to a pre-poll voting place.

(3) Election information provided under subsection (2) must only be used in connection with an election.

(4) A person must not use, or cause or permit the use of, election information provided under this section for any purpose other than in connection with an election.

Maximum penalty: 1,000 penalty units.