At the same time the practice of paying or entertaining voters was outlawed, and election expenses fell dramatically.
His agent was later fined for not filing an election expenses report.
Erm, so there should be a limitation of election expenses.
But a revision showed his campaign instead owed $685,000 in election expenses.
National Labour had collected £20,000 in total for election expenses.
Sections 72 to 90 control the total election expenses that can be spent on behalf of a candidate.
Politicians had received money to finance their election expenses and to run or bribe newspapers.
He declined to seek re-election to Parliament in 1768, unless the government paid all his election expenses.
In 2004, however, the law was changed so that the limit on election expenses begins only once an election has been called.
The Liberals quickly recouped their election expenses once they were in government.