Tasmanian election day – open thread

Polls have now opened in the Tasmanian state election. Feel free to use this post to share interesting tidbits or developments throughout the day. There'll...

Tasmanian Liberals take the lead in polls

Tasmania's election is coming up this Saturday (check out my guide here!), and two recent polls suggest the campaign has shifted in favour of...

SA election – nominations close

The official list of nominations for lower house seats in the South Australian election was published late yesterday afternoon, and I have now updated...

Tasmanian election – nominations close

Nominations were announced today for the Tasmanian election. 109 candidates have nominated, with six parties running candidates. This is a drop from 126 candidates running...

Cottesloe by-election coming up on March 17

There will be a state election for the seat of Cottesloe in Western Australia on March 17, to elect a successor to former Liberal...

Batman by-election – read the guide

Federal Labor MP David Feeney has just announced that he will be resigning from his seat of Batman after failing to prove that he...

QLD, TAS & NT federal redistributions – estimates of margins

In recent months, federal redistributions have been completed for Tasmania, the Northern Territory and Queensland, with Queensland's being finalised on January 5. As far as...

New year, new data

Over the break I've been working to expand the size of this website's data repository. If you're new to this, the repository publishes state...

Tasmania goes to the polls – March 3

It appears that the Tasmanian premier, Will Hodgman, will today call the state election for March 3. For the first time since 2002, the...

Queensland federal redistribution finalised

Six Australian states and territories have been due for federal electorate redistributions during the current federal parliamentary term - we've already completed the process...