The winner is clear in most House of Representatives seats, one week after the election. But with a record number of votes for minor parties and independents, Australia’s preferential voting system has been under increasing strain, with the full complexity of the counting system needed to determine the last few seats.
One seat, Calwell, may take weeks to determine and has been described by the acting deputy commissioner of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) as “one of the most complex distributions of preferences we’ve ever done”.
