NT redistribution finalised
The redistribution of electoral boundaries for the 2024 Northern Territory election was finalised on Friday.
This has been a long process. The first draft boundaries...
NSW ward redistributions completed
New South Wales councils will be up for election in September 2024, and the process of redrawing ward boundaries for these elections has now...
Podcast #110: Generational gaps in Australian politics
Ben is joined by Shaun Ratcliff from Accent Research to discuss his recent report looking at differences in voting trends across the generations. We...
Dunkley by-election upcoming
Sadly yesterday we heard that federal Labor MP Peta Murphy had died of cancer after a long illness.
This is a website that covers elections,...
WA state redistribution – boundaries finalised
The final electoral boundaries for the next Western Australian state election were released on Friday morning. The changes mostly replicated the draft boundaries released...
Queensland ward boundary changes concluded
Queensland's local councils will be up for election next March. Numerous Queensland councils, including the urban councils of the south-east, use single-member wards (called...
My papers for the 2023 APSA conference
The 2023 conference of the Australian Political Science Association is taking place in Sydney this week, and I will be presenting two papers -...
JSCEM 2022 election report released
The federal parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters yesterday released their report into the 2022 federal election.
I won't try to summarise every point...
Podcast #109: Finding the electoral sweet spot
Ben is joined by Dr Simon Hix from the European University Institute to discuss a paper he co-wrote with John Carey about finding the...
ACT election guide launched
There are five elections scheduled for 2024 that I'm planning to write guides for, and today I'm ready to unveil the third one of...