How should we be naming our federal seats?
Australian federal electorates follow a fairly unique naming convention. Australian state seats are usually named after geographic locations, which is also common for national...
ACT and Victorian redistributions – here are the maps
I've finished making Google Earth maps for the draft federal boundaries for Victoria and the ACT, and they are now available for download:
ACT...
ACT and VIC redistributions live
3:01 - This is my last comment for now. I'll be working on the boundary map over the weekend and plan to return by...
This week’s guides – April 5
Since last week's post, I have published seven more guides. This includes the next five most marginal federal seats, as well as one donor...
Election guide update – some long weekend reading
As flagged earlier this week, I've now started work on the guides to the next federal election, along with the upcoming state elections in...
You tell me which seats to profile…
Now that the elections of March are mostly concluded, I've shifted my focus to my guides to the federal election and the state elections...
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...