Lodging election summary returns

Lodging election summary returns

Disclosure returns ensure that transfers of money used to support election participants in a state election are transparent.

In addition to reporting gifts and loans in real-time, election summary returns are required after a state election. The election summary return is a summary of all electoral expenditure incurred for an election, and it must be accompanied by an audit certificate and a bank statement from the registered political party’s state campaign account.

The return must be submitted within 15 weeks after the election.

Links to further information:

• State fact sheet 7 – Definition of electoral expenditure
• State fact sheet 8 – Disclosure of electoral expenditure and election summary returns
• Video - Election summary returns