Can someone explain Australian parties to me? (fedia.io)

submitted 3 days ago by atro_city@fedia.io to c/australia@aussie.zone

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Y'all have first past the post / winner takes all, don't you? There was a vote recently and "labor" won from what I'm reading?

Labor, coalition, independents, etc. what kinds of parties are these? I thought Albanese was a "cunt" yet his party seems to have won again? What's going on?

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[-] stib@aus.social 4 points 3 days ago

@joshcodes
"The green ballot is just counted up, and the person with the most votes wins." Nope. That's the Seppo system, thank fuck we don't do that shit here.
The green ballot is a single winner instant runoff vote (to give it it's "well akshully" name).
So they count the first preferences, then the candidate with the least first preferences has their ballot papers distributed to the number 2 choice on each one (at full value). Then the next least has theirs redistributed, and so on, until there is a candidate with >50%. This means I can vote 1 for my local gay-furry-legalise-ecstasy independent, and if they don't get in my preference will flow to the least fascist big boring centrist party that I put first in my preferences.
Here's the Australien Honest explainer video, it should be required viewing:
https://youtu.be/zXHq04W0kBs
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