Tasmanian upper house guides posted

Tasmania's Legislative Council is elected by a unique voting system, with a small proportion of the fifteen seats up for election every year, with...

What happened to SA Best?

This is quite a long analysis of the SA Best performance at yesterday's state election. If you stick with it I've included a chart...

SA election – Liberals win government in status quo result

There's been a lot of chatter about SA Best and their impact on the SA election, and I will return to them in my...

Batman 2018 – the map tells the story

I love a good electoral map, that can tell a story about how a seat's population votes in different ways and how the balance...

Batman/SA election night live

Batman by-election results Candidate Party Primary Primary % Swing 2PP votes 2PP % 2PP Swing Yvonne Gentle Rise Up Australia 1895 2.56 2.56 Ged Kearney Labor 31226 42.22 8.01 39483 53.38 2.1 Alex Bhathal Greens 30470 41.19 5.57 34483 46.62 -2.1 Kevin Bailey Conservatives 4724 6.39 6.39 Tegan Burns People's Party 358 0.48 0.48 Debbie Robinson Liberty Alliance 957 1.29 1.29 Teresa Van Lieshout Independent 875 1.18 1.18 Adrian Whitehead Independent 617 0.83 0.83 Mark McDonald Sustainable Australia 737 1 1 Miranda Smith Animal Justice 2107 2.85 1.42 Primary...

Super saturday – election day thread

Polls have now opened in the South Australian state election and the federal Batman by-election, and will be opening in the state by-election in...

Tasmanian election – count update

We are now entering the final stages of the Tasmanian election's preference distributions. After all votes were collected, preferences began to be distributed yesterday,...

Tasmanian election – booth results maps

So we finally have booth breakdowns of the Tasmanian election results - and for the first time these have been published as spreadsheets (rather...

Tasmanian election – close seats

My estimate at the end of Saturday night was that the Liberal Party had won 13 seats, Labor 8 and the Greens one, with...

Tasmanian election night live

10:13pm - If you've appreciated my coverage of this election, now would be a good time to think about signing up as a patron. I'll...