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#### 28 Number of voters in electoral districts
28 Number of voters in electoral districts
> Upon any distribution of New South Wales into electoral districts, the boundaries of each proposed electoral district shall be so determined that, at the time the distribution is made, the number of persons entitled to vote at a general election of Members of the Legislative Assembly in each proposed electoral district is equal to the quotient obtained by dividing the number of persons entitled at that time to vote at any such general election in all of the proposed electoral districts by the number of those proposed electoral districts, but subject to a margin of allowance not exceeding 10 per cent more or less of that quotient.
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> **s 28:** Am 1906 No 41, sec 61; 1912 No 19, sec 2; 1912 No 41, sec 188; 1920 No 20, sec 2; 1922 No 2, sec 2; 1925 No 6, sec 2; 1930 No 8, sec 2; 1932 No 48, sec 3; 1938 No 18, sec 2; 1947 No 28, sec 2 (1); 1951 No 63, sec 2 (b); 1956 No 22, sec 3 (a); 1959 No 36, sec 2 (a); 1963 No 36, sec 2 (b); 1966 No 29, sec 2 (c); 1969 No 41, sec 2 (b); 1971 No 52, sec 2 (b); 1974 No 7, sec 3 (b); 1975 No 2, sec 3 (b). Rep 1975 No 25, sec 15 (2) (a). Ins 1979 No 38, Sch 1 (5).