Queensland Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 224

224 Entitlement to election funding—candidates

(1) A candidate in an election is entitled to election funding under this section if the total number of formal first preference votes given for the candidate in the election is at least 4% of the total number of formal first preference votes made in the election.

(2) The amount of election funding to which the candidate is entitled is the lesser of—

(a) the election funding amount calculated under section 225 for each formal first preference vote given for the candidate in the election; and

(b) the amount of electoral expenditure—

(i) claimed in relation to the candidate for the election; and

(ii) accepted by the commission under section 231 .