Talk:Constitution Act Further Amendment Act 1881

electoral divisions
- "It repealed section 8 of the Constitution Act and section 3 of Act no 27 of 1872 which had required the Legislative Council to be elected from one electoral district in 22 divisions" - what does the 22 divisions mean in this context? The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 06:12, 3 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Scratch that, I just dug up the 1872 Act, which uses that odd language and so sheds absolutely no light on it. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 06:17, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I can't find an electoral roll from the period online to be certain, but they seem to correspond to the lower house districts and the significance is that each polling booth only had the electoral roll for the division it was in, not a roll for the entire electoral district. Later rolls (post-federation) used the language "Commonwealth Division of Barker. State Assembly District of Onkaparinga. Subdivison of Mount Barker" (example from 1939 found on Ancestry.com). More recent ones don't do subdivisions at all and the polling booth has the roll for the entire state electoral district or Commonwealth division. --Scott Davis Talk 22:03, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation - I was quite confused. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 23:55, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Feel free to update the article with words that make sense to you. I can correct it if it looks wrong to me, but I was OK with the words I used so didn't realise it needed clarifying (possibly because I have worked in polling booths). --Scott Davis Talk 07:46, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure - your explanation clarifies it but it's a hard thing to translate into article prose in this case (and probably not the most important detail). The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 08:23, 4 November 2018 (UTC)