NSW 2023 – gender balance in the new parliament

There has been an uptick in the number of women elected to parliament in both chambers at the recent NSW election, which I expected...

How would CPV have changed the NSW results?

New South Wales uses optional preferential voting (OPV) for its lower house, unlike every other single-member electorate system for a lower house in Australia,...

2PP preference flows at the 2023 NSW election

I've started to see a few questions about how preferences flowed at this election. So while we don't have the full picture, I thought...

Podcast #91: Aston by-election results

Ben is joined by Peter Brent to discuss the remarkable results of Saturday's Aston by-election. We discuss the context of the by-election, the potential...

Personal votes and the effect of retirements in NSW

The recent NSW state election saw a high number of retirements in the lower house. The Coalition had more retirements than at any other...

Aston by-election live

10:36 - I'm going to leave the live blog here. This result tonight was truly remarkable. We all now know the history - governments simply...

The blue wall blocking the Labor majority

Labor won a large two-party-preferred vote, yet looks set to fall short of a parliamentary majority. For most of modern Australian political history, a...

Podcast #90: Aston by-election preview

Ben is joined again by William Bowe from the Poll Bludger to discuss this weekend's federal by-election in the seat of Aston. This podcast is...

NSW 2023 – the vanishing Labor majority

At the end of election night, Labor had definitively won 45 seats, but was expected to pick up enough extra seats to win a...

Podcast #89: NSW election results

Ben is joined by William Bowe from the Poll Bludger to discuss the results of the NSW state election. Poll Bludger live results page ...