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Election funding numbers announced

FOLLOWING the ACT October election over a million dollars in public electoral funding will spread across four registered political parties and one non-party candidate. Andrew-Barr
Acting electoral commissioner, Ro Spence says: “ACT Labor, the Canberra Liberals and the ACT Greens all reached the four per cent threshold in each of the five electorates, with the Australian Sex Party ACT also reaching the threshold in Brindabella and Mr Kim Huynh, a non-party candidate, achieving the required votes in the electorate of Ginninderra.”
A bulk of the funding went to the ACT Labor Party who received $750, 488, followed by the ACT Liberals with $717, 056 and the ACT Greens who were paid $200, 768.
The ACT Australian Sex Party received $29, 552 in electoral funding and non-party candidate Kim Huynh raised $18, 920.
Spence says the rate of election public funding was $8 per eligible vote.

Spence says a registered political party is eligible to receive election funding for any votes obtained by candidates who together gather at least four per cent of the total number of formal first preference votes cast in an electorate.

A non-party candidate is eligible to receive election funding if he or she polls at least four per cent of the total number of formal first preference votes cast in the relevant electorate.

Spence says: “No party or candidate is obliged to accept public funding.”

 

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