Australia uses preferential voting for its elections, but how does it work? Well here's an explanation how it's used for the House of Representatives to find which candidate has a majority. Preferential voting requires you to rank the candidates by numbering them 1, 2, 3, etc in order of your favourite candidate to least. But then how is a winner determined? I've got a few different scenarios to demonstrate when preferences are counted and how the count flows from one candidate to the next.For the sake of simplicity, I am just explaining how single-member electorates are decided through preferential voting. For proportional systems like the Senate the count is a bit more complicated (the same fundamental premise of preferences still applies) but if you want to know more about how that works here's an explanation from the AEC: https://www.aec.gov.au/voting/counting/senate_count.htm Support the channel on patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/AuspolExplainedLike Auspol Explained on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Auspol-Explained-107892180702388Auspol Explained would like to acknowledge the Whadjuk Nyoongar people and their Elders as the owners and custodians of the Land that the episode was recorded and edited on. This Land was stolen and never ceded. It always was and always will be Aboriginal Land.