Podcast #87: Prospects for a hung parliament in NSW

In today's episode Ben is joined by Peter Chen from the University of Sydney. They discuss the prospects for a hung parliament and the...

Podcast #104: New Zealand election preview

Ben is joined by James Mulrennan from The Overhang. We preview next weekend's New Zealand national election, touching on the electoral system, the state...

Changing voting patterns slow down declaration of seats

Most people who read this website would have a reasonably good sense of the formal process of counting ballots: the counting of a primary...

Victoria 2018 – election night open thread

9:52pm - I'm going to close down this brief liveblog, but I will be back in the morning with further analysis, including a focus...

Election called: September 7

Kevin Rudd is on his way to the Governor-General's residence in Canberra where he is expected to call the election. The election is expected to...

New Queensland federal boundaries finalised

Last Friday the AEC released the final Queensland electoral boundaries for the next federal election. These boundaries include a small number of changes from...

NSW 2023 – Election night

Polls have just closed in New South Wales. I won't be running a liveblog tonight, but you can follow me by listening in to ABC...

Mount Coot-tha gets interesting

Unlike Pauline Hanson, there's one independent candidate taking their clothes off, one "Honest" Dave Zwolenski in Mount Coot-tha: http://www.youtube.com/v/gXPDUqbzvz0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

Podcast #117: Tasmania elects a hung parliament

Ben is joined by Kevin Bonham to wrap up the Tasmanian state election. We discuss the close undecided races, what might come next for...

New official seat margins published in Victoria

The Victorian Electoral Commission has recently published a report laying out their estimates of the two-candidate-preferred margins in every electorate for the upcoming Victorian...