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A half-Senate election for the election of six Senators occurred in Western Australia on 5 April 2014. Preferences were distributed on 29 April 2014.〔(Liberals secure three seats in WA Senate re-run: SMH 29 April 2014 )〕〔(2014 WA Senate election final distribution of preferences: AEC )〕 The election was called after the result of the 2013 Australian federal election for the seats was voided by the High Court of Australia, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, on 20 February 2014. The election came about as a result of 1,375 ballot papers being lost during an official recount in November 2013. The High Court ruled that because the number of lost ballots far exceeded the margin for the two remaining Senate seats, the only acceptable remedy was to throw out the results and hold a fresh election. This decision set in motion the process of an special election. The election is unprecedented in Australian federal politics. An election was held in South Australia in 1907 for the election of one senator under a previous electoral system. Half-Senate elections without a corresponding Australian House of Representatives election have occurred several times due to effluxion of time, the last one having been held in 1970. The date was set by Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove on the advice of Prime Minister Tony Abbott. However, the onus for setting times and processes fell on the Governor of Western Australia, Malcolm McCusker, on the advice of Premier Colin Barnett, in McCusker's obligations under the operation of the Election of Senators Act 1903 (WA). ==Result== |} The sixth and last seat was a close contest between third Liberal candidate Linda Reynolds and second Labor candidate Louise Pratt.〔(WA Senate election: Government hopeful of favourable Upper House as Palmer United Party picks up seat: ABC 6 April 2014 )〕 Reynolds was ahead in the ABC's detailed count projection,〔 with Antony Green predicting on 10 April "It is clear the Liberals will win the last seat".〔(Tracking the WA Senate Re-election Count: Antony Green ABC )〕 The result was confirmed by the Electoral Commission on 29 April.〔〔 The score at the final count was 188,169 to Reynolds versus 176,042 for Pratt, a margin of 12,127. The projected margin on Green's calculator, which treats all votes as above-the-line, was a narrower 8,109.〔(WA Senate election finalised: Poll Bludger )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australian Senate special election in Western Australia, 2014」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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