WA upper house preferences – Lib/Nat alliance cracks
Western Australia still uses the group voting ticket system for its Legislative Council - the system used for the Senate until 2013. Under this...
Nominations close for WA state election
Nominations closed yesterday for the Western Australian state election, to be held four weeks from today.
415 candidates have nominated for the lower house. Labor, Liberal...
Guides to Manly and North Shore by-elections
By-elections are due to be held soon in the two New South Wales seats of Manly and North Shore. The two seats sit side-by-side...
Where does One Nation get its votes in WA?
The Western Australian state election, to be held in March, will be the first electoral test of One Nation since they won four seats...
Read the guide to the 2017 WA state election
Voters in Western Australia go to the polls on March 11 for their state election.
I have published a complete guide to all of the...
NSW council mergers hit a wall – and may go backwards
After multiple years of making plans and implementing them, the NSW government is now on the verge of announcing something which should have come much...
SA Labor banning above-the-line preferences in upper house
The South Australian Labor government has released legislation to reform the voting system used for the South Australian upper house. Like the federal and...
NSW council elections – turnout drops statewide
It's taken some time to pull together the data, but I've now got a complete set of booth-level data from the 2012 and 2016...
Council mergers string out NSW elections for four more years
The NSW state government has written to councils laying out the timetable for council elections for those councils which have not yet been amalgamated....
Orange by-election summary
While the results in Wollongong and Canterbury were less interesting (Labor retained both seats), the result in Orange was fascinating.
The Nationals vote has cratered,...