Podcast #167 – Farrer by-election preview
Ben was joined by Mark Riboldi from UTS to preview this weekend's Farrer by-election, and what it might imply about the Coalition's bigger issues...
Nepean and Tasmanian LC live
11:22 - The count has finished for the night in Nepean, with the 2CP count for Rosebud added, and the pre-poll 2CP count has...
Farrer livestream and live event in Canberra
May is going to be a big month for by-elections. We'll have election nights on three successive Saturday nights from May 2 to May...
Newcastle and Liverpool South by-elections live
9:40 - Two of the six pre-poll booths have reported in Newcastle, and Gavin Morris is now on more than 51%.
9:38 - Labor's lead...
How South Australia may have played out under proportional representation
Readers will be aware that I have long advocated for proportional representation methods to be used when electing Australia's parliaments, and I have extensively...
By-election coming up for Stafford
There will be a by-election soon for the Queensland state seat of Stafford, sadly triggered by the recent death of independent MP Jimmy Sullivan.
Sullivan...
AEC releases report into informal voting
Late on the Friday afternoon, the Australian Electoral Commission has released a long-promised report into informal voting at the 2025 federal election.
The typical process...
Measuring marginality beyond the pendulum
When Australian elections were dominated by two major parties, Labor and the Coalition, the pendulum evolved as a simple tool to lay out the...
How preferences flowed in South Australia
We have almost reached the end of the House of Assembly count for the recent South Australian state election. We know the winner in...
Landslide – new book about the 2025 federal election
Over the last ten years I've had the privilege of writing a chapter for the series of academic edited volumes analysing each federal election,...