What is State Electoral District?
'''State Electoral District''' means an [[electorate]] in the [[Lower house|Lower House]] or Legislative Assembly of [[Australia]]n states and territories. Most state electoral districts (except [[Australian Capital Territory]] and [[Tasmania]], which have multi-member electorates using a [[Single Transferable Vote|proportional]] voting method) send a single member to a state or territory's parliament using the [[Australian electoral system#Preferential voting|preferential]] method of voting. The size of a state electoral district depends on the Electoral Acts in the state and vary in size between them. At present, there are 407 state electoral districts in Australia. State electoral districts do not apply to the [[Upper house|Upper House]], or Legislative Council, in the states which have one ([[New South Wales Legislative Council|New South Wales]], [[South Australian Legislative Council|South Australia]], [[Tasmanian Legislative Council|Tasmania]], [[Victorian Legislative Council|Victoria]] and [[Western Australian Legislative Council|Western Australia]]). In New South Wales and South Australia, MLCs represent the entire state, in Tasmania they represent single-member districts, and in Victoria and Western Australia they represent a region formed by grouping electoral districts together. == By State/Territory == === Australian Capital Territory === There are three electorates for the [[Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly|Legislative Assembly]], two with five members each, and one with seven members, making up seventeen members in total. === New South Wales === [[Image:NSW 2007 election state.png|thumb|Results of the New South Wales state election, 2007 showing the state electoral districts]] [[Image:NSW 2007 election Sydney.png|thumb|Results of the New South Wales state election, 2007 showing the districts in Sydney.]] There are currently 93 electoral districts in New South Wales. === Northern Territory === There are 25 single-member electoral divisions in the [[Northern Territory]], and 13