Over the last ten years I’ve had the privilege of writing a chapter for the series of academic edited volumes analysing each federal election, each time focusing on the House of Representatives results. This year’s edition is called Landslide, and it is out now.
This is the nineteenth book in a series that stretches back to 1958, and has covered every election since 1987. It’s been really great to be able to connect to that long legacy and I have been collecting older editions from the series.
I’ve done a quick video going through my collection which you can watch here.
The last six volumes (dating back to Julia 2010) have been published by ANU Press and all of them are available in full online, either as individual PDF chapters or the whole book as HTML, PDF or in ebook formats, and they are all available for purchase as hard copy editions. I think people who read this website will find many parts of these books of interest. Here are the links to the last six volumes:
- Julia 2010: The caretaker election
- Abbott’s Gambit
- Double Disillusion
- Morrison’s Miracle
- Watershed
- Landslide
Hi Ben, in your chapter in ‘Landslide’ you produced a graph showing how many inner metropolitan, outer metropolitan, provincial and rural electorates each party won dating back to 1993. I can only find the divisional classification for each electorate dating back to 2004. Where did you find the data for the 1993, 1996, 1998 and 2001 elections? Cheers, Noah.
Hi Noah,
I don’t really remember where I found them. I thought they might be in the AEC election CDs for 1993-2001 but I can’t find them in there. It’s possible I extrapolated from the later classifications. Other analysts who are a bit older than me pointed out that the AEC rarely updates the classifications, even when a seat’s boundaries (or population patterns) change. I’ll email you the classifications I have.