Year in review

AEC overview

Updated: 25 November 2010

Table 61 provides a statistical breakdown by state or territory of industrial and fee-for-service elections undertaken by the AEC in 2009–10.

Table 61 Activities in relation to industrial elections and fee-for-service ballots, 2009–10
	NSW	Vic.	Qld	WA	SA	Tas.	ACT	NT	Total
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