At the first count, the successful candidate was Mr Scullin (ALP) who obtained 42.5% of the vote. H would have won if Australia had used an FPTP system, but it did not get more than 50% of the first preferences and the procedure occurred following the rule of a preferential system. In this case the elimination of the candidate continued until the last one. In the last distribution, Mr. Scullin got 43.7% and Mr. Gibson (VFU), who was second at the beginning, got 56.3%, which means that Mr. Gibson won with the majority . Votes for Sculin (ALP) were rejected, however if Australia had used an FPTP system it would have rejected more