Making votes count is about more than turning out
The NSW special minister of state, John Graham, yesterday announced that the government will ask the state Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters (JSCEM)...
Podcast #119: Solomon Islands elections
Ben is joined by Kerryn Baker from the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University to discuss the recent elections in the...
Tasmanian Legislative Council live
9:31 - I'm going to wrap up my coverage of this race here.
At the moment it looks likely that the result will see Labor...
The role of parties in Tasmania’s upper house
Tasmania's upper house stands out amongst Australia's parliamentary chambers with the most unusual constitutional structure. It has single-member electorates - common for lower houses,...
Tasmania 2024 – election-day turnout continues downward trend
I've got yet another chapter in the long story of Australians' changing habits in voting. With the final results of the Tasmanian state election,...
Mapping intra-party booth results – Tasmania 2024
Prior to the Tasmanian election I produced a blog post mapping out the relative strength of candidates within the same party ticket in some...
The decline of the star candidate in Tasmania
One feature of the recent Tasmanian state election result was a surprisingly small number of candidates reaching a quota on primary votes, despite the...
Informal rates up in Tasmania with bigger parliament
It's no surprise that the informal rate increased at the recent Tasmanian state election, but I wanted to explore how high the rate went,...
Stop holding state by-elections alongside council elections!
This is a message for the state of Queensland, who've now done this at the last two rounds of council elections in 2020 and...
The mismatch in Brisbane’s booth results
When I was analysing the 2020 Brisbane City election results at the start of the year, I noticed an inconsistency. I've now identified that...