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,...
NSW by-election results live
Orange by-election results - 38 booths reporting, 9 booths reporting 2CP
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
Swing
Projection
Janelle Bicknell
Greens
1,687
5.83
-1.06
5.69
Scott Barrett
Nationals
8,628
29.83
-35.52
30.07
Philip Donato
Shooters
7,531
26.04
26.04
26.04
Kevin Duffy
Independent
1,873
6.48
6.48
6.48
Scott Munro
Independent
2,296
7.94
7.94
7.94
Bernard Fitzsimon
Labor
5,542
19.16
-4.40
18.96
Dianne Decker
CDP
978
3.38
0.88
3.47
Ian Donald
Independent
388
1.34
1.34
1.34
9:15pm - We now have...
SA state redistribution – draft boundary analysis
While we were all recovering from the federal election, South Australia was undergoing a redrawing of its state electoral map for the 2018 state election....
ACT election night – results live
11:00pm - Here's my final update for tonight.
Based on the work I've shown in the last few updates, I estimate that Labor has won twelve seats,...
What’s going on at the Tally Room
This blog has been pretty quiet since the conclusion of the NSW council elections. I'm working on a few different projects in the background...
NSW council election – statewide results
Coverage of local council elections understandably focus on local stories, but this can make it hard to get a broad perspective on how an election...
NSW councils election night results
12:10am - Last comment from me, a summary of the state of the race in the nine biggest councils:
Blacktown - Labor has regained...