Canning 2015 – results summary

Saturday's by-election in the federal seat of Canning in Western Australia resulted in the Liberal Party's Andrew Hastie to win despite a sizeable swing...

Canning by-election live

Primary vote results as of 9:33pm - 45/45 booths reporting Candidate Party Votes % Swing Projected Vimal Kumar Sharma Palmer United 2,272 3.06 -3.82 2.35 Connor Whittle Liberal Democratic Party 410 0.55 +0.55 0.55 Michelle Allen Pirate Party 671 0.90 +0.9 0.90 Greg Smith Ausralian Defence Veterans Party 570 0.77 +0.77 0.77 Katrina Love Animal Justice 1,007 1.36 +1.36 1.36 Andrew Hastie Liberal 34,437 46.42 -4.65 47.52 Teresa...

Turnbull replacing Abbott – why is this happening?

With Malcolm Turnbull replacing Tony Abbott as Liberal leader and Prime Minister, we have now had three parliamentary terms in a row where the...

Turnbull challenges for Liberal leadership

Malcolm Turnbull this afternoon resigned as Communications Minister and challenged for the leadership of the Liberal Party. This is an open thread to discuss these...

ACT redistribution – ‘Fraser’ renamed ‘Fenner’, loses southern edge

The Australian Electoral Commission yesterday released draft electoral boundaries for the ACT's two federal electorates. At the moment, the ACT is covered by two seats:...

By-elections triggered in Victoria

Following dual resignations of senior Liberals on August 31, we'll be seeing two Victorian state by-elections in neighbouring rural seats in south-western Victoria later...

Redistribution updates – ACT and Brisbane

While I've been focusing on other projects, two of the ongoing redistributions have been finalised. I covered the release of draft boundaries for redistributions for the...

WA federal redistribution – download the map

The draft proposed boundaries for the Western Australian federal redistribution were released last Friday. Western Australia gained a sixteenth electorate, and this new electorate has been...

WA federal redistribution – draft boundaries announced

The Australian Electoral Commission yesterday announced their draft boundaries for the federal redistribution of Western Australia. WA had gained a sixteenth electorate, and the proposal...

Canning by-election guide posted

Federal Liberal MP Don Randall passed away during July, triggering a by-election for his seat of Canning. The by-election date has not been set, but...