NT election August 27 – check out the guide

Voters in the Northern Territory go to the polls on August 27 to elect a new Legislative Assembly. The Country Liberal Party returned to power...

Victorian nominations – Liberals sit out inner city?

Nominations will close tomorrow for registered political parties running in the Victorian state election, with independents having until Friday to nominate. The Liberal Party today...

Don’t let single-member electorates off the hook

There's been a lot of discussion over the last few days about the Labor preselection for my local federal seat of Parramatta, where sitting...

USA 2010: Senate elections

Voters in 37 US states will go to the polls on November to elect members of the US Senate. In 34 states, senators will be...

Historical trends added to state election guides

I've recently finished adding a new feature to my seat guides for the Victorian and New South Wales state elections and I wanted to...

NSW wrap-up – the classic Sydney races

Over the course of this week I'll be running through four categories of seats that seem interesting as we get closer to Saturday. Today,...

North Sydney by-election – December 5

The by-election for Joe Hockey's seat of North Sydney has been scheduled for Saturday 5 December. I've now posted the guide to the by-election, which...

ACT and VIC redistributions live

3:01 - This is my last comment for now. I'll be working on the boundary map over the weekend and plan to return by...

Introducing new interactive booth maps

As we head into the election I've been busily posting election guides - about 63 have now been posted, with the remainder due over...

Podcast #95: From seats into votes

Ben is joined by Professor Matthew Shugart from UC Davis to discuss how the electoral system influences the party system. We discuss the effective...