A by-election is occurring in the seat of Cunningham

Timeline

Candidate submission deadline: Friday 9th February 6pm

Campaigning: Saturday 10th February - Friday 16th February (Inclusive)

How to Vote card submission deadline: Wednesday 14th February 11:59pm

Election Day (Results Calculated): Saturday 17th February

Results Announced: Saturday 17th February OR Sunday 18th February

All times are in Canberra time. There will be polls issued before the campaign and throughout the campaign.

Campaigning

Campaigning will take palace on r/AusSimCampaigning

Endorsements

Endorsements are for parties to encourage voters to vote for another candidate. To endorse a candidate, you will need to make a campaign post endorsing them. You may change your endorsement at any time; however, this will diminish the effectiveness severely.

How to Vote Cards

All candidates and parties will be able to submit a How to Vote (HTV) card after the official announcement of candidates. HTV cards will instruct voters how to distribute their preferences. 75% of a candidate’s voters will follow the HTV card.

HTV cards must be submitted to the EC using a form that will be provided after the official announcement of candidates.

HTV cards will be due at midnight on Wednesday 14th February and revealed by the Electoral Commission on Thursday 15th February. You will not be permitted to change your How to Vote Cards after they have been revealed.

Post Limits

• Candidates will have four posts they can use on any day of the campaign. However, posting all your posts on one day will diminish the effectiveness.
• Parties will get one post in each by-election that cannot be posted by their candidate. For parties not contesting, this is the post they can use for their endorsement.

Post Titles

Normal post title rules apply. All posts must have a correctly formatted title to make it easier for readers, markers and for automatic flairs:

[Melbourne - 23rd - Post 3] Anacornda advocates for the abolition of Income Tax in the CBD [Hotham - 24th - Post 4] Anacornda visits a random town to campaign against Climate Change [Hotham - (your party) Party Post] Random party leader makes a stop in Hotham

Each post is required to be labelled with the date as shown above.

Candidate submission

Candidates can be submitted by party leaders or independents here. Submission is due by Friday next week for the campaign to start the following day. Please verify in this thread when you submit your candidate.