NSW Nationals want smaller seats – how?
Last month, Nationals MLC Ben Franklin announced that he would seek a parliamentary inquiry into the size of the western NSW electorates of Barwon...
Ireland votes yes for marriage equality – results map
Ireland voted on Friday in a referendum on allowing same-sex marriage, and it passed overwhelmingly.
Since I have previously produced a Google map of Ireland's parliamentary...
Senate reform – questions that need answering
Two weeks ago I wrote a piece for the Guardian putting the case for reform to the system of Senate group voting tickets, in...
UK election – counting day
8:27am - Polls have now closed in the UK election, and over the course of the day we will be getting results from each...
UK election – the day before
Voters in the United Kingdom will be voting tomorrow (Thursday 7 May) to elect a new House of Commons - expected to be the...
NSW redistribution – updated figures
Last year, I wrote up an analysis of the prospects for the current redistribution of federal electorates in NSW.
In late April, the final population data,...
Tasmanian LC 2015 – results wrap-up
Voters on Saturday voted in three out of fifteen Tasmanian Legislative Council electorates, and in all three they re-elected their incumbent MLCs.
In the north-eastern...
Tasmanian Legislative Council election results
7:38pm - Most booths have now reported in all three seats, and in Derwent and Mersey the result seems pretty clear. In Windermere, Ivan...
iVote – the other side of the story
Two weeks ago, I wrote a post explaining the problems that have cropped up around the NSW Electoral Commission's iVote internet voting system, and...
NSW 2015 – voters shift away from election day and postal voting
The recent NSW state election saw a continuation of the long-term trend of less and less people casting ordinary election-day votes. In addition, in...