Polwarth and South-West Coast by-elections
7:25pm - The Liberal Party looks set to retain both seats. At the moment they are on 47.7% in Polwarth, which should easily be...
North Sydney by-election – December 5
The by-election for Joe Hockey's seat of North Sydney has been scheduled for Saturday 5 December.
I've now posted the guide to the by-election, which...
NSW redistribution – map complete
I've now completed the Google Earth map of the draft federal electoral boundaries for New South Wales.
Download the map here.
I've also produced a fusion...
Increase to Queensland malapportionment on the cards?
I've missed a story which has been quietly bubbling along for the last few months which could see a bill introduced by the opposition...
IPART declares NSW councils “unfit”, set for merger fight
The NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has today released its report into the "Fit for the Future" process, which has been the...
Tuesday news open thread
We're expecting two big bits of news today.
The Canadian election results will be flowing in over the next few hours. Polls close at 10am...
NSW redistribution – notional vote figures
I've been getting a bunch of questions about the relative strength of parties in the proposed new federal electorates which were released by the...
NSW redistribution, council amalgamations and SA reform
There's been a lot of electoral news this morning! I'll try to run through it all really quickly. I'll be putting together the new...
WA council elections – new ward map posted
Western Australia is currently undergoing regular council elections. It's taken a while to pull together, but I've now completed an updated ward map for...
NT redistribution – boundaries finalised
The Northern Territory has been undergoing a redistribution for the 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly, and the final boundaries were released last week.
Quite...