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The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is the independent statutory authority and agency of the Australian Government responsible for the management of federal Australian elections, by-elections and referendums.
The seat entitlement of Western Australia was increased from fifteen to sixteen in this determination. [24] In January 2024, a redistribution began in Western Australia. [231] In September 2024, the AEC announced the creation of the Division of Bullwinkel, and adjusted the boundaries of the surrounding electorates. [232]
The 2025 Australian federal election will be held on or before 17 May 2025 to elect members of the 48th Parliament of Australia. All seats of the House of Representatives (150 compared to 151 in the previous election) and 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate will be contested.
The functions of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) include maintaining voter registration records and the preparation of electoral rolls.The AEC maintains a permanent electoral roll, which is updated continuously, and which is used for federal elections, by-elections and referendums.
The Australian state of Victoria is divided into 39 electoral divisions for the purposes of electing the Australian House of Representatives. At the 2022 federal election the Australian Labor Party won 24 of the state's 39 divisions, while the Liberals won 8, the Nationals won 3, the Greens won one, and three were won by independents. [1]
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) determines the number of members of the House of Representatives to which each state and territory is entitled (called apportionment) and the boundaries of each electorate, in a process known as redistribution. Such apportionment and redistributions apply to the next federal election, but not to any by ...
Boundaries for the Australian House of Representatives and for the six state and two territorial legislatures are drawn up by independent authorities, at the federal level by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) and in the states and territories by their equivalent bodies. Politicians have no influence over the process, although they ...
The boundaries of Australian electoral divisions are reviewed periodically by the Australian Electoral Commission and redrawn in a process called redistribution. The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 requires that all seats have approximately an equal number of enrolled voters. When the Commission determines that population shifts within a state ...