We now have a quiet period following the federal election and the Tasmanian election, and I’m using it as an opportunity to complete my election guides for the elections next in the queue.
The South Australian election guide has already been published for some time, but today I’ve published my Victorian election guide.
The Victorian election will be held in November 2026, so that is 15 months from now.
The guide features profiles of all 88 Assembly contests and the 8 Legislative Council regions. These profiles feature results tables, historical information and maps.
Most of the guide is exclusively available for Tally Room members. To become a Tally Room member, sign up as a donor for $8 or more per month via Patreon. Those of you who have been donating $5 or more for a while now are still grandfathered in with access (and if you have trouble with access let me know).
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While there won’t be as much public attention on Australian elections over this year, there will still be plenty of stuff to do. We have redistributions in two Australian states and a territory, and a state redistribution in Queensland. A federal redistribution will be held in Queensland next year, and state redistributions will also take place for Western Australia and both territories.
I’m also hoping the downtime will create more space for things like history podcasts. Either way, your support will help balance out the cycle of interest in elections. If you find this work useful, please sign up.
To give you a taste of what is available, I’ve unlocked four profiles. I tried to pick a range of interesting contests:
- Mornington – a seat the Liberal Party barely held on to against an independent in 2022.
- Richmond – a seat the Greens hold in inner city Melbourne.
- Yan Yean – a marginal northern suburbs Labor seat – the kind of seat that has been becoming stronger for the Liberal Party relative to the rest of Victoria.
- Northern Metropolitan – this upper house region elected Adem Somyurek in 2022. It contains the Greens’ best areas but also outer suburban areas.
I am also planning to publish a guide to the NSW state election later this year, and a partial guide for the next federal election, covering the 100 electorates unaffected by redistribution. Those will be fully available for $8+ Patreon donors.
