Candidates’ reported election expenditure, 1984^*

* The material on which this research note is based was gathered while the author was Principal Research Officer for the Royal Commission on the Electoral System. Full analysis of this material was completed after the Commission reported; opinions in this paper are those of the author. I am grateful to the Returning Officers for their cooperation, and to Ross Renner and Stephen Haslett of Victoria University’s Institute for Statistics and Operations Research for help with the computer and statistical analysis.

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* The material on which this research note is based was gathered while the author was Principal Research Officer for the Royal Commission on the Electoral System. Full analysis of this material was completed after the Commission reported; opinions in this paper are those of the author. I am grateful to the Returning Officers for their cooperation, and to Ross Renner and Stephen Haslett of Victoria University’s Institute for Statistics and Operations Research for help with the computer and statistical analysis.