NSW 2023 – how preferences flowed in the crossbench seats
In today's post I'm following up on a pre-election blog post where I looked at what preference flow data tells us about the underlying...
NSW 2023 – upper house preference rates continue to climb
Last week I analysed the final distribution of preferences in the NSW upper house election and thought I had detected some evidence that people...
NSW 2023 – final two-party-preferred preference flows
The final preference datasets for the NSW state election were published yesterday. These datasets include the full preference data for every single ballot paper...
WA state redistribution – the starting numbers
The process of redistributing Western Australia's electoral boundaries has now commenced, with the first round of submissions closing next week.
Western Australia's 59 electorates will...
The six-seat Senate dilemma
I've written before about the peculiar way that single transferable vote works differently with districts electing an odd number of representatives, as opposed to...
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...