Less marginal seats: the new shape of the electoral battleground
Last Saturday's election was not a landslide: far from it. While it appears the Liberal/National coalition has gained a small swing nationally, there are...
Federal 2019 – the race in Western Australia
Western Australia has sixteen seats in the House of Representatives, and these seats strongly favour the Liberal Party. Labor holds five seats, while the...
Labor leadership: Shorten wins
The ALP has just announced the result of the Labor leadership election - the first election that gave a say to members.
Overall, Bill Shorten...
Don’t like senators winning with 77 primary votes? Here’s how to fix it
There's been a lot of attention over the last few days on the newly elected One Nation senator from Queensland, Malcolm Roberts. His election...
QLD redistribution – the numbers
Queensland is about to dive into a redistribution of state electorates, to update the existing electoral map which was created in the lead up...
Nominations close in South Australia
Nominations in the South Australian state election closed on Monday. The near-death of SA-Best has seen a decline in the number of candidates running...
What voters made up Labor’s election-winning coalition?
As of yesterday, the results of the 2022 federal election have been finalised and move to the results archive. One of the last pieces...
Podcast #80: Papua New Guinea revisited
Ben is joined by Michael Kabuni to wrap up this year's Papua New Guinea election. We talk about levels of violence and election disruption,...
Ireland votes Yes
The Republic of Ireland has voted decisively to overturn the result of the June 2008 referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, with a 20% swing...
Inner West deamalgamation results
EDIT: I have discovered an error in the official election results which appear to have transposed Tempe High with Summer Hill Community Centre. The...