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In Australia, one vote one value is a legislative principle of democracy whereby each electorate has the same population within a specified percentage of tolerance. In the case of the Commonwealth, the maximum tolerance for the House of Representatives is 10%1. The electoral legislation of The Commonwealth, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania, but not Western Australia, all follows the principle of one vote one value.
In Queensland, the one vote one value is now followed, with the exception that electoral divisions convering an area greater than 100,000sq.km are allowed an extra weighting.
[1] (http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/1995-96/96rn38.htm)
1See s66(3) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
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