Bibliography of proportional representation in Tasmania

Proportional representation was introduced in Tasmania by the Electoral Act of 1896, in which a form of the Hare system was used for two of the electorates of the House of Assembly.
The causes which led to the adoption of the Hare system were thus stated by the late Mr. Justice Andrew Inglis Clark in the following paragraphs, contributed by him to the report by Messrs. J. G. Davies and R. M. Johnston on the elections for the Senate and House of Representatives in Tasmania in 1901.
The Clark-Hare system of voting was introduced into the electoral law of Tasmania in consequence of the frequent failure of the ordinary system of voting to secure a proportionate representation of the preponderating opinions of the electors on political questions either in single or plural electorates.