As Australia also uses a ranked voting system supporters of minor parties are not disenfranchised as their votes are redistributed to other candidates according to the voter's nominated order of preference which can then form part of another candidates winning quota.
Budući da Australija također koristi glasački sustavi s rangiranim glasovanjem, pristalice manjih stranaka nisu obespravljene jer su njihovi glasovi preraspodijeljeni drugim kandidatima prema redoslijedu izbora koji se bira i koji onda može biti dio drugog kvota kandidata je pobijedila.