NSW STATE ELECTION RESULTS 2019
Saturday 23 March 2019
NSW STATE ELECTION RESULTS 2019
Saturday 23 March 2019
State Electoral District of Newtown
Preference Data for each ballot paper scrutinised at the election including informal papers.
Electors Enrolled as on 23/03/2019: 56,412
The link below is a download link and contains a zip file with all Legislative Assembly preference markings for the district of Newtown.
Each record in the file represents a preference marking. The format has been determined to allow the greatest flexibility for analysis using excel pivot tables. The file has the following format and can be readily imported into an excel spreadsheet as a tab delimited file.
| Field Name | Field Value | Data Type |
|---|---|---|
| District | Short District Name | Varchar, not null |
| PollingPlaceName | This field holds either the Venue name where vote is taken for a polling place or pre-poll or is 'Declared Institution' which holds all the votes for all venues within each district or 'Absent', 'Enrolment', 'iVote', 'Postal', 'Provisional/Silent'. | Varchar, not null |
| BPNumber | Virtual ballot paper id, uniquely identify a ballot paper with in a contest. Not a unique record id. | Integer, not null |
| Formality | Identifies if ballot paper is Formal or Informal. | Varchar, not null |
| CandidateName | Candidate name as shown on the ballot. | Varchar, not null |
| PrefMarking | Preference marking as seen on ballot paper either a series of numbers comprising characters 0 to 9 or / or x | Varchar or null |
| PrefCounted | Preference number as interpreted from preference marking used in count. Must be an integer greater than Zero. Only shown where the formality of the ballot paper is Formal. | Integer, not null |
The specification for the Legislative Assembly count can be found at Functional Requirements Specification for the LA Vote Count [720 KB PDF]
The legislation defining the LA count can be found at Constitution Act - Seventh Schedule Conduct of Legislative Assembly elections
