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...

Booth map of the day: the Perth region

This map is the largest booth map I've published, and it shows the two-candidate-preferred results in eleven of WA's fifteen seats, and the swings...

Booth map of the day: Gilmore

Gilmore is one of the two closest seats in terms of the final preference count, and is unique for being one of the few...

Booth map of the day: Fowler

Today's map shows the two-candidate-preferred vote by booth in Fowler between newly elected independent Dai Le and her opponent, former Labor senator Kristina Keneally. The...

Booth map of the day: inner city Brisbane

For the rest of this week, each day I'll be featuring a booth map of a seat or a handful of neighbouring seats, starting...

Callide by-election guide posted

It's a close-run thing, but I've now published a guide to the Callide state by-election to be held this Saturday, 18 June, in Queensland....

Checking out variations between the House and the Senate

There's a lot to be learned about the trends in this election by looking at how the largest party groupings performed in the two...

What sort of swing could produce a hung parliament?

On election day I published a blog post looking at how the crossbench had been expanding over time and how that had largely eliminated...

Changing voting patterns slow down declaration of seats

Most people who read this website would have a reasonably good sense of the formal process of counting ballots: the counting of a primary...