Kiama by-election incoming

With the resignation of Gareth Ward this morning, shortly before his expected expulsion from Parliament, a by-election will be needed to replace him in...

Tasmanians move further away from election day voting

There has been a clear trend in all Australian elections over the last twenty years of voters moving away from voting on election day,...

Mapping intra-party booth results at Tasmania 2025

Now that we have the final booth results for the Tasmanian state election, I've decided to add another chapter to a series of blog...

How bad was the informal vote in Tasmania?

Casting a formal vote in a Tasmanian lower house election isn't the easiest vote to cast, but in some ways it's easier than it...

The churn amongst Tasmania’s MPs

While the overall seat numbers in the Tasmanian House of Assembly have been very stable, that disguises more changes at the level of the...

Tasmanian preference count wraps up with some close contests

If you've been following my live blog, you would have seen that the preference count in the Tasmanian state election finished on Saturday, with...

Tasmania’s result – the most proportional possible

Tasmania's Hare-Clark system is proportional, but it's not purely proportional. Each division elects seven members, and results are not just about how many votes...

Tasmanian distribution of preferences liveblog

12:47pm - George Razay has been elected in Bass - not even for the seventh seat, but the sixth. Razay ended up on 6968 votes,...

Corrected federal election data now published

During the federal election count, I identified a number of issues with the data being published by the AEC. Two main issues emerged, where...

Federal redistributions kick off

Now that the Parliament has officially opened for its first sitting after the federal election, we're off to the races with redrawing the electoral...