Tasmanian upper house elections tonight
Voters in three Tasmanian Legislative Council divisions are voting today for members to represent those seats for the next six years.
I won't be liveblogging...
Fadden by-election incoming
Federal Liberal MP Stuart Robert announced his retirement this morning from his northern Gold Coast electorate of Fadden. I think this probably will be...
NSW 2023 – the growing early vote and the election night vote gap
As my final blog post about the 2023 NSW state election, I wanted to look back at how people cast their votes in 2023...
Proportionality of the NSW election result
Today's post is a follow-up to analysis I did of the recent federal and Victorian elections, looking at how the recent NSW election rates...
NSW 2023 – how preferences decided the close races
When you look at the NSW election results at the state level, there are some general trends that dominate when it comes to preferences....
NSW 2023 – how preferences flowed in the crossbench seats
In today's post I'm following up on a pre-election blog post where I looked at what preference flow data tells us about the underlying...
NSW 2023 – upper house preference rates continue to climb
Last week I analysed the final distribution of preferences in the NSW upper house election and thought I had detected some evidence that people...
NSW 2023 – final two-party-preferred preference flows
The final preference datasets for the NSW state election were published yesterday. These datasets include the full preference data for every single ballot paper...
WA state redistribution – the starting numbers
The process of redistributing Western Australia's electoral boundaries has now commenced, with the first round of submissions closing next week.
Western Australia's 59 electorates will...
The six-seat Senate dilemma
I've written before about the peculiar way that single transferable vote works differently with districts electing an odd number of representatives, as opposed to...