WA Senate 2014 – Liberal Party wins final seat

After the closeness of the 2013 election, we were all ready for a close contest in 2014, but that hasn't eventuated. At the end...

Blain by-election results live

8:09 - And that's it for tonight. Short and sweet election night. 8:07 - One last point to raise before finishing this liveblog. If you...

Blain by-election – NT majority on the line

One of the smallest Australian elections will be coming up this Saturday, April 12, in the Northern Territory electorate of Blain. Blain covers the southern...

WA Senate – how Pratt could win

Yesterday's post predicted that the most likely outcome in the WA Senate election is that Liberal candidate Linda Reynolds will widen her lead over...

The next day – preference flows and postal votes

At the time of writing, the result of yesterday's Senate re-run in Western Australia is still up in the air, but is much clearer...

WA Senate by-election: results live

10:15pm - I'm going to sign off here for the night. I'll be back with another post tomorrow. As a summary, here are the...

WA Senate election day

Polls have just opened in Western Australia for the unprecedented special election for all six WA senate seats that were meant to be filled...

SA and TAS 2014 – campaigns conclude

Today we saw the conclusion of the count in Tasmania's electorates, with all five electorates now finalised. Results in Franklin and Bass were reasonably decisive,...

ACT Assembly going to 25

In the lead-up to the state elections in South Australia and Tasmania, I didn't have time to cover another electoral story in the Australian...

SA 2014 – boundary issues

South Australia’s election produced a result that has sparked a lot of interest: despite the Liberal Party winning a majority of the two-party-preferred vote...