the electorate; the electorate had notably voted strongly against adopting a daylight savings system in prior referendums. Additionally, the Legalise Cannabis WA party won a seat on the council with only 2% of the vote; the No Mandatory Vaccination Party almost won a seat through votes given by other smaller parties through GVTs (despite none of these parties individually earning more than 1.9% of the vote), however, were defeated due to the Liberals preferencing the Greens above any of the smaller parties therefore allowing the latter to win. This led to the state government to quickly pass legislation which abolished GVTs in November of that same year. Ticket voting in the South Australian House of Assembly GVTs and "above the line" voting have been used for upper house elections in the jurisdictions described above. In the lower house of most Australian states and the Australian House of Representatives, full preferential instant-runoff (preferential) voting is used to elect a single representative for an electorate. Voters are instructed to put a number in every square, and if they neglect to do so, their vote is informal. A substantial proportion of informal votes have a number 1, tick or cross in a single box. In elections for the lower house of South Australian Parliament, the South Australian House of Assembly, the instructions on the ballot paper advise voters to complete every square. But there is a savings provision where one or some squares have been completed, but not all of them. Parties can submit preference tickets for each electorate to the Electoral Commission of South Australia. Where only one square has been completed indicating a vote for a particular party, that party's ticket is used instead of the vote becoming informal. Similarly, but much more rarely, if a voter completes several but not all squares, and their votes match those of a party's ticket, the ticket will be used to complete the remainder of the squares. It is illegal for parties to promote "Just Vote 1" or the like - the measure is only intended to avoid an informal vote where the voter's intention is clear. See also Straight-ticket voting, a similar mechanism for single-winner elections in the United States Notes References External links Political terminology in Australia Electoral systems