Forms and handbooks
Candidates
- Candidate handbook LG20 - supplementary elections 2023 (PDF, 1.1MB)
- Profile and photograph requirements LG13 (PDF, 735KB)
- Scrutineer authority LG15 - (PDF, 258KB)
- Scrutineer guide LG14 - (PDF, 528KB)
- Understanding the role of a councillor (PDF, 2.4MB)
- Voters roll - Acknowledgment of use LG55 (PDF, 257KB)
Timetable
2022 Council Elections
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Close of electoral roll | 5:00 pm, Friday 29 July 2022 |
| Nominations open | Tuesday 23 August 2022 |
| Nominations close | 12 noon, Tuesday 6 September 2022 |
| Mailout of ballot material to electors | Between Friday 14 October and Thursday 20 October 2022 |
| Last day for issue/re-issue of ballot material | 5:00 pm, Thursday 3 November 2022 |
| Close of voting (polling day) | 5:00 pm, Thursday 10 November 2022 |
| Scrutiny and count | 9:00 am, Saturday 12 November 2022 |
Counting the votes for council elections
Proportional representation electoral system
The electoral system used in local government elections in South Australia is the proportional representation electoral system, or PR for short.
Proportional representation is the term that describes a group of electoral systems used for elections in multi-member electorates to elect candidates who receive a set proportion of the vote. In Australia, these systems are classified into 3 categories.
- List systems
- Mixed-member proportional systems
- Single transferable vote (STV) systems
The proportional representation vote counting system is designed to ensure that vacant positions are allocated as nearly as possible in proportion to the votes received. It is assessed as a ‘fair’ system for counting votes but more complex than other counting systems, and may take longer to finalise.
A candidate is elected after obtaining a quota or proportion of the formal vote.
Calculating the quota
The quota is the number of votes a candidate needs to be certain of election.
The quota is calculated by dividing the total number of formal ballot papers in the count by one more than the number of vacancies available, adding one and ignoring any fractional remainder.
For example, if there were a total of 1,000 formal votes and 2 candidates to be elected, the quota would be:
Quota: (1,000 / (2 + 1)) + 1 = 334.333 = 334
PR count diagram
Proportional representation booklet
PR count processes and examples (PDF, 593KB)Proportional representation - how we count the votes
Statistics Bragg By-election
Early voting
The following table shows the daily declaration votes cast at the early voting centre in Myrtle Bank and via the ECSA COVID-19 voting team.
| Date | Votes |
| Monday 20 June | 298 |
| Tuesday 21 June | 323 |
| Wednesday 22 June | 256 |
| Thursday 23 June | 316 |
| Friday 24 June | 525 |
| Saturday 25 June | 351 |
| Monday 27 June | 533 |
| Tuesday 28 June | 522 |
| Wednesday 29 June | 523* |
| Thursday 30 June | 810* |
| Friday 1 July | 964* |
| Saturday 2 July | 33* |
| Total | 5,454* |
* includes COVID-affected voters that completed declaration votes via ECSA voting teams
Postal voting
The following table shows the daily number of postal vote applications received and returned postal ballots.
| Week number | Date | Registered* | Post | Online** | Total | Returned postal ballots |
| One | 6/06/2022 | 0 | ||||
| 7/06/2022 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 8/06/2022 | 11 | 11 | ||||
| 9/06/2022 | 13 | 41 | 54 | |||
| 10/06/2022 | 28 | 28 | 56 | |||
| Weekly total | 0 | 55 | 69 | 124 | ||
| Two | 13/06/2022 | 0 | ||||
| 14/06/2022 | 795 | 32 | 114 | 941 | ||
| 15/06/2022 | 20 | 33 | 53 | |||
| 16/06/2022 | 38 | 114 | 152 | |||
| 17/06/2022 | 89 | 84 | 173 | |||
| Weekly total | 795 | 179 | 345 | 1,319 | ||
| Three | 20/06/2022 | 347 | 57 | 404 | ||
| 21/06/2022 | 164 | 65 | 229 | |||
| 22/06/2022 | 858 | 44 | 902 | |||
| 23/06/2022 | 482 | 34 | 516 | 48 | ||
| 24/06/2022 | 281 | 67 | 348 | 56 | ||
| Weekly total | 0 | 2,132 | 267 | 2,399 | 104 | |
| Four | 27/06/2022 | 168 | 95 | 263 | 217 | |
| 28/06/2022 | 212 | 86 | 298 | 328 | ||
| 29/06/2022 | 216 | 46 | 262 | 802 | ||
| 30/06/2022 | 44 | 62 | 106 | 523 | ||
| 1/07/2022 | applications closed | applications closed | applications closed | 453 | ||
| Weekly total | 0 | 640 | 289 | 929 | 2,323 | |
| Five | 4/07/2022 | 355 | ||||
| 5/07/2022 | 302 | |||||
| 6/07/2022 | 476 | |||||
| 7/07/2022 | 147 | |||||
| 8/07/2022 | 43 | |||||
| 9/07/2022+ | 26 | |||||
| Weekly total | 1,349 | |||||
| Grand total | 4,771 | 3,776 (79.1%) | ||||
* ECSA maintains a register of voters who meet a certain criterion that prevents them from attending a polling booth. These voters are called registered declaration voters and are automatically sent a postal vote pack at the time of an election or by-election.
**Applications are completed online, printed, signed by the voter and witnessed. The voter then scans and sends the application to a dedicated email address.
+ Last day to receive postal ballots