These tabulations are of the cumulative number of transfer votes for each party and for every count on which a party's votes were transferred, with the exception noted below.

A small percentage of vote transfers are not included, namely, those cases where candidates of different parties were eliminated on the same count. This is because in such an event (when x number of votes from one party's candidate and y number of votes from another party's candidate are simultaneously transferred) it is not possible to determine which votes from a particular candidate were distributed to the candidates receiving the transferred votes. While these cases are not included here, they are part of the tabulation of individual candidates' vote transfers.

The table for each election year shows:

(a) the party, election district and count involved in the vote transfer;

(b) the number of candidates who were eligible to receive any transfer votes at the time of the transfer count;

(c) the number of votes being transferred; and

(d) the destination of the transferred votes, i.e., to a candidate of the same or of another party, or to non-transferable status.