Group voting tickets for Victorian Legislative Council (upper house) elections are abolished: parties can no longer lodge a registered ticket that automatically distributes preferences on behalf of voters who number only one box above the line.

Voters casting an above-the-line vote must now number at least 5 groups in order of preference, meaning their vote continues to flow to other parties if their first preferences are eliminated.

The method for counting surplus votes of elected candidates changes to a weighted fractional transfer system, making the distribution of preferences more proportional to each ballot paper's value.

A ballot paper with only one group numbered above the line remains formal but exhausts once that group's candidates are eliminated.