Table 61 provides a statistical breakdown by state or territory of industrial and fee-for-service elections undertaken by the AEC in 2009–10.
NSW | Vic. | Qld | WA | SA | Tas. | ACT | NT | Total | |
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Elections and ballots | |||||||||
Contested industrial elections | 27 | 18 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 78 |
Uncontested industrial elections | 40 | 51 | 26 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 21 | 6 | 187 |
Protected action ballots | 132 | 251 | 148 | 69 | 44 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 661 |
Fee-for-service enterprise agreement ballots | 19 | 33 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 93 |
Fee-for-service elections and other ballots | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 29 |
Other elections and ballots | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 230 | 362 | 189 | 98 | 70 | 43 | 38 | 18 | 1 048 |
Offices – industrial elections | |||||||||
Positions available | 1 348 | 3 084 | 496 | 629 | 730 | 454 | 289 | 124 | 7 154 |
Unfilled positions | 323 | 1 958 | 97 | 234 | 298 | 112 | 91 | 25 | 3 138 |
Candidates – industrial elections | |||||||||
Candidates for uncontested positions | 839 | 1050 | 352 | 320 | 434 | 331 | 181 | 96 | 3 603 |
Total number of candidates | 1 256 | 1 272 | 452 | 485 | 489 | 422 | 227 | 115 | 4 718 |
Ballot papers | |||||||||
Issued (industrial) | 60 936 | 148 651 | 44 837 | 162 298 | 27 858 | 40 531 | 5 165 | 3 693 | 493 969 |
Returned (industrial) | 14 650 | 47 477 | 9 809 | 38 343 | 5 959 | 14 318 | 1 183 | 1 132 | 132 871 |
Issued (protected action) | 35 614 | 16 110 | 23 880 | 6 587 | 4 034 | 1 179 | 1 143 | 38 | 88 585 |
Returned (protected action) | 24 068 | 15 334 | 13 536 | 5 331 | 4 781 | 837 | 696 | 36 | 64 619 |
Issued (fee-for-service enterprise agreements) | 35 495 | 16 005 | 5 520 | 2 390 | 1 011 | 1 322 | 3 547 | 1 290 | 66 580 |
Returned (fee-for-service enterprise agreements) | 24 157 | 9 020 | 3 827 | 1 458 | 841 | 666 | 2 323 | 1 040 | 43 332 |
Issued (other fee-for-service) | 25 240 | 2 911 | 115 | 0 | 112 | 0 | 0 | 636 | 29 014 |
Returned (other fee-for-service) | 3 119 | 1 767 | 101 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 636 | 5 671 |
Total issued | 157 285 | 183 677 | 74 352 | 171 275 | 33 015 | 43 032 | 9 855 | 5 657 | 678 148 |
Total returned | 65 994 | 73 598 | 27 273 | 45 132 | 11 629 | 15 821 | 4 202 | 2 844 | 246 493 |