Seat in focus – Oatley

Oatley was the closest seat at the last election. Liberal candidate Mark Coure defeated Labor MP Kevin Greene by 440 votes, or 0.5%. Coure's...

Seat in focus – Ballina

Last Friday, I published a breakdown of the election result in the key seat of Lismore in the far north of New South Wales. The...

Seat in focus – East Hills

East Hills was one of the last seats the Liberal Party gained off Labor in 2011, with Liberal candidate Glenn Brookes winning the seat off...

Seat in focus – The Entrance

The Entrance is a marginal seat on the Central Coast. It was won in 2011 by the Liberal Party's Chris Spence. He was caught up...

Seat in focus – Gosford

Gosford is the closest race in the New South Wales state election. At the time of writing, Labor's Kathy Smith leads Liberal MP Chris...

Redrawn ACT electoral boundaries released

Earlier this week, while most of us were distracted by the New South Wales election results, the ACT Electoral Commission released draft boundaries for...

NSW late counting – day six

This will be the last 'late counting' post. At this point, it seems possible to call the results in Lismore, Gosford and The Entrance,...

Seat in focus – Lismore

Over the next few days I will be posting about a number of the most interesting seats in the NSW election, including a breakdown of...

NSW late counting – day five

In Lismore, I've changed my estimated preference flows based on fresh information from scrutineers suggesting the Greens are not picking up quite enough Labor...

NSW 2015 – projecting the Legislative Council

There's a lot of outstanding questions in the Legislative Council count. We know that the current vote shares will shift, and as they shift,...