Editing Electoral threshold (section)

===Australia===
The [[Australian Senate|Senate of Australia]] is elected using single transferable vote (STV) and does not use an electoral threshold or have a predictable "natural" or "hidden" threshold. The quota ensures the election of candidates, but it is also possible to be elected with less than quota at the end of the count. At a normal election, each state returns six senators and the [[Australian Capital Territory]] and the [[Northern Territory]] each return two. (For the states, the number is doubled in a [[double dissolution]] election.) As such, the quota for election (as determined through the Droop quota) is 14.3 percent or 33.3 percent respectively. (For the states, the quota for election is halved in a double dissolution election.) However, as STV allows votes to be transferred even across party lines, candidates who receive less than the quota for election in the first round of counting may reach the Droop quota and be certain of election, or at least have enough to be elected with less than the quota. Therefore, the sixth (or, at a [[double dissolution]] election, the 12th) Senate seat in each state is often won by a candidate of a party who received considerably less than the Droop quota in primary votes. For example, at the [[2022 Australian federal election|2022 election]], the sixth Senate seat in [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]] was won by the [[United Australia Party (2013)|United Australia Party]] even though it won only 4 percent of the primary vote in that state. The successful UAP candidate, Ralph Babet, had personally accumulated a vote tally equivalent to 12 percent of the votes cast by the end, which due to 7 percent being exhausted, meant he was the most popular when only he and one other candidate were still in the running.<ref>"2022 Victorian Senate election" https://antonygreen.com.au/2022-victorian-senate-election/ accessed April 18, 2025</ref>