Booth map of the day – teal Melbourne
For today's booth map we're staying in Melbourne but heading slightly south-east, to look at the two incumbent teal MPs in Melbourne: Zoe Daniel's...
Podcast #149: The most complex count ever?
Ben was joined by Kevin Bonham to run through the close seats and the Senate race that have dragged out, one week after the...
Booth map of the day – inner north of Melbourne
Throughout this week, and perhaps the next, I will be posting booth maps for interesting seats, or clusters of seats. I will be doing...
Senate count update – a left-wing landslide
The House of Representatives contest has been a very comfortable win for Labor, and this has also been reflected in the Senate.
One of the...
Close seats liveblog
5:19 - Over 80% of the vote has been added to the Flinders 2CP count, including every vote that's not an ordinary election day...
Close seats tracking, part 3 – the 3CP counts
The Australian Electoral Commission has now started publishing three-candidate-preferred counts for some electorates where the final two are not clear. They have published seat-level...
Close seats tracking, part 2
For tonight's update, I'm going to first touch on the races I included in this morning's post and how they have changed. Those are...
Close seats tracking, part 1 – the conventional close races
At the time of writing on Monday evening, there appear to be 17 close seats worth following over the next few days.
By my reckoning...
Podcast #148: A record-breaking election
Ben is joined by William Bowe from the Poll Bludger to discuss the results of yesterday's Australian federal election, which produced Labor's best result...
Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night
Good morning, I have been writing this blog post after getting home to wrap my own head around the scale of the count. I...