Program · Outcome 1: Maintain an impartial and independent electoral system for eligible voters through active electoral roll management, efficient delivery of polling services, and targeted education and public awareness programs
Program 1.1: Deliver Electoral Events
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$436m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$74m (−14.6%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $472m | $391m | −$80m −17.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 482 |
| Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 | departmental | $16m | $16m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 485 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $12m | $12m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 486 |
| s74 External Revenue | departmental | $11m | $11m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 483 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 2) | administered | $0 | $5.7m | +$5.7m new | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 480 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $0 | $0 | no change – | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 479 |
| Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 | administered | $0 | $0 | no change – | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 481 |
| Special appropriations | departmental | $0 | $0 | no change – | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 484 |