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 ...

NSW 2023 – Legislative Council count progress

We are now starting to get a substantial sample of votes for the Legislative Council, and it's giving us some sense of who is...

NSW 2023 – next day review

There were a lot of parallels between the NSW result and last year's federal election result. On a Labor vs Coalition basis, the result...

NSW 2023 – Election night

Polls have just closed in New South Wales. I won't be running a liveblog tonight, but you can follow me by listening in to ABC...

NSW 2023 – early voting reaches new high

Polls have just opened for election day in New South Wales. I won't be regularly updating today but I wanted to give an update...

NSW wrap-up – the upper house

Most of the media attention tends to focus on the lower house, but voters will be casting two ballots, and the Legislative Council is...