Mulgrave by-election live
9:50 - So we don't really have a valid 2CP between Labor and Liberal, so it's a bit hard to say what's going on....
Who do we name our seats after?
Federal redistributions are currently underway in three states. While the main focus is on the boundaries of the electorates, and the electoral implications of...
Podcast #108: Inside a party’s redistribution submission
Shane Easson has been drawing up redistribution submissions for the Australian Labor Party since 1984. This year he's not doing the Labor submission for...
NSW federal redistribution – suggestions released
The suggestions from members of the public, MPs and political parties for the current redistribution of federal electoral boundaries in New South Wales were...
Podcast #107: Boundary delimitation, straight from Malaysia
Today's podcast was recorded at the roundtable on Boundary Delimitation and Malapportionment in Asia and the Pacific held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October...
Queensland’s (lack of a) redistribution
We're now one year out from the next Queensland state redistribution. Queensland was the last state to extend its parliamentary terms to four years,...
Victorian federal redistribution – official numbers published
The Australian Electoral Commission has now officially published the population projections to be used when redrawing Victoria's federal electoral map prior to the next...
WA federal redistribution – official numbers published
The Australian Electoral Commission has now released the numbers to be used when drawing new federal electoral boundaries for Western Australia. This follows up...
The Indian-Australian vote for Yes
When I went to look at the Voice referendum results at the booth level in my local area, I noticed some surprising trends in...
The Indigenous vote in rural electorates
There has been some confusion and even some misleading analysis looking at how the Yes vote performed in seats with large Indigenous populations.
In particular,...