NSW guide launched
While the federal election is now over, the two biggest state elections in Australia are just around the corner: Victoria in November, and New...
How often do MPs in PNG win re-election?
Papua New Guinea's electoral system on the surface looks quite similar to the system we have in Australia, with preferential voting and single-member electorates....
Winning candidate vote shares in Papua New Guinea
In Friday's blog post, I looked at the number of candidates running per seat in Papua New Guinea elections. Specifically how the number of...
Ballots are big, but not getting bigger, in PNG
Voting has now commenced in Papua New Guinea's national election, with voitng due to conclude by July 22. Over the next week I'm going...
New map – PNG electoral boundaries
Papua New Guinea goes to the polls next month to elect the national parliament, and for the first time since 1977 there has been...
Podcast #77: PNG election preview
Ben is joined by Maholopa Laveil from the University of Papua New Guinea to discuss the upcoming Papua New Guinea national election, with voting...
Understanding 3CP trends
As the minor party and independent vote has increased, we have seen the voting method used for the House of Representatives take on more...
Mapping out a majority early vote
Now that all of the votes have been counted, I wanted to look at the various methods of casting a ballot, which methods have...
Final 2PP opens up the historical trends
The two-party-preferred count was effectively finalised last night, with the final figures counted from Cooper and Melbourne in inner-city Melbourne. There were 26 electorates...
Booth map of the day: the ACT
Today I'm looking at booth results across the ACT. I'm starting with a two-candidate-preferred map, but probably the Senate race is more interesting, where...