Candidate update – nomination day

Nominations close today in the Queensland state election. I did an update of candidates last night, checking each of the main party websites for...

Website maintenance Saturday

I'll be undertaking some maintenance tomorrow morning on this website. I'll have to copy the contents of the website over to a new server,...

Major parties go to QLD election missing candidates

I have been compiling a list of candidates for the Queensland election as I always do, regularly updating the lists on each seat guide. I...

QLD federal redistribution – draft released

I've been quite busy recently and hadn't had time to deal with the recent draft released for the Queensland federal redistribution. To be honest it's...

NSW by-elections live (sort of)

7:28pm - Okay last update for a few hours. The Nationals have increased their lead on the Shooters after preferences in Murray - they...

Read more about the upcoming by-elections

There are four by-elections coming up in the next six weeks in Australia's two largest states. I posted guides to two of these four by-elections...

Breaking down the Inner West Council results

I've been paying quite a bit of attention to the Inner West Council results. It's my former council area, but it's also one of...

NSW council elections – results rolling in

After a week of counting, we are starting to get final ward results declared in some of the fifteen big councils I've been covering....

Swings and vote totals – NSW council elections

I've pulled together the primary vote totals as of this afternoon and calculated swings for each council and ward in urban NSW. I've restricted my...

Run of the board – NSW council elections

In this post I will quickly summarise the state of play in the 14 most populous councils I have analysed (excluding Ku-ring-gai, where no tickets...