Victoria 2022 – the state of play in the upper house
It's early days in counting for the Legislative Council, but there are already some trends emerging.
The Druery alliance has been broken, with only a...
NSW 2023 – where preferences have flowed over time
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly has been elected by the optional preferential voting (OPV) method since 1981. Unlike compulsory preferential voting (CPV) which...
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...
NT redistribution – draft boundaries published
The draft boundaries for the next Northern Territory Legislative Assembly election in 2024 were released yesterday. Changes were mostly restricted to the Darwin-Palmerston area,...
Podcast #102: A history of Australian referendums
Ben is joined by Paul Kildea and Andre Brett to discuss the history of Australian referendums. We discuss the historical origins of referendums at...
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...
Podcast #112: Prabowo wins in Indonesia
Ben was joined by this week by Marcus Mietzner from the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the ANU, and the author...
The mismatch in Brisbane’s booth results
When I was analysing the 2020 Brisbane City election results at the start of the year, I noticed an inconsistency. I've now identified that...
Victorian candidates – final update
Nominations closed today for the Victorian state election. In this post I'll run through the numbers on how many people are running, and from...
Wentworth by-election live
9:33 - I'm going to end this liveblog here. We now have primary vote figures from all ordinary booths, and are just missing the...