Welsh Assembly elections 2011
On Thursday 5 May, Welsh voters will go to the polls for the fourth time to elect members of the National Assembly of Wales.
The...
NSW 2011: analysing the Legislative Council result
I blogged earlier tonight on what the actual result was in the Legislative Council. Now I want to turn to analysing that result and...
NSW 2011: unpacking the Legislative Council count
This is the first of two blog posts I will write tonight on the Legislative Council result. The second will focus on the spin...
UK to vote on preference voting
At the 2010 general election, the British House of Commons produced a hung parliament, the first one for over 30 years. The final result...
Introducing my time-series maps
I've been making and posting my Google Earth electoral maps on my blog since day one, and I have now got quite a large...
Northern Ireland votes
In my continuing series of profiles on elections due in the month of May, today I'm focusing on the upcoming elections to the Northern...
Why do parties hand out how-to-votes?
On the afternoon of the election I had a discussion on Twitter about why parties hand out how-to-vote cards and the significance of their...
Canada takes another shot at a majority
Canadian voters will go to the polls on 2 May for their fourth federal election in seven years.
The centre-left Liberal Party governed in majority...
Can Campbell do it?
While we were all distracted by the recent NSW election, an interesting psephological story broke in Queensland with relatively little fanfare.
The Lord Mayor of...
Labor and the Punch lie about Greens and Hanson
Plenty of people have already taken News Ltd hack David Penberthy to task for his lie that the Greens preferenced Pauline Hanson in the...