Podcast #93: NSW election wrap and expanding the federal parliament

Ben is joined by Stewart Jackson to wrap up the NSW state election, but to also discuss the news about a possible expansion of...

Time for a bigger parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday ran a story about the potential for an expansion of the number of seats in the Australian parliament. I think...

NSW 2023 – mapping the upper house vote

Today's post features two maps showing the vote for the top five polling groups in the Legislative Council election by region, and the swings...

Lower exhaustion rates amid a more concentrated upper house vote

One of the things that stood out in the NSW Legislative Council results was that Animal Justice increased their vote from the level that...

NSW 2023 – final upper house count published

Earlier today the "button" was pushed in the NSW upper house preference distribution. The full preference distribution was published a short time ago and...

NSW Legislative Council primary vote complete

The NSW Electoral Commission has now finished counting votes for the Legislative Council count. That means we now have the final primary vote figures,...

Result map – Fairfield, Cabramatta and Liverpool

This is the final chapter in my series of booth results posts. As requested, I'm looking at the only three Labor seats were the...

Tasmanian upper house guide now up!

While we haven't quite finished with the 2023 NSW election, I'm now moving on to the next election on the calendar. Tasmania's upper house has...

Result map – Central Coast

Today I'm looking at the four seats of the Central Coast, with particular interest in Terrigal - the only Liberal seat on the Coast,...

NSW Legislative Council count update

While the counting for the lower house is finished (barring a recount in Ryde), counting continues for the NSW Legislative Council, due to conclude...