Update on seat guide
There hasn't been much in the way of updates to the blog since finishing the guide at the beginning of June.
I've been regularly updating...
Candidate update: 729 and counting
Yesterday I went through and added a lot more candidates to the electorate profiles, and the same candidates were added to the online candidates...
Polls and speculation heat up
Speculation is intensifying about the possibility of an August election being called in the next week or two.
Next Monday is the deadline to call...
Queensland LNP takes aim at electoral law
While the rest of the country has been focusing on federal politics, two weeks ago the Queensland Attorney-General, Jarrod Bleijie, announced plans for a...
Victorian redistribution draft boundaries map finished
Following on from the completion of the NSW draft boundaries map a fortnight ago, I have now finished the Google Earth maps of the...
Parties registered for 2013: the record is broken
I've previously posted about the surge in political party registration applications, that was threatening to break the record for the largest number of political...
A very different close election
I haven’t been following the polls individually as they come out, and I don’t plan to do so for most of the upcoming campaign....
What’s happening in your seat?
Now that the 150-seat election guide is complete and public, I've been noticing the level of activity on the blog increasing massively - regularly...
NSW and Victorian redistribution updates
Last Thursday, the Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission released the draft boundaries for the Victorian state redistribution. These boundaries are expected to cover the 2014...
Labour retains Ikaroa-Rāwhiti in NZ by-election
Voters in the New Zealand electorate of Ikaroa-Rāwhiti went to the polls yesterday to elect an MP after the death of Labour MP Parekura Horomia.
Labour...