NSW 2019 – what would a hung parliament be like?
You can treat this as an opportunity to post your last-minute election predictions.
There's a growing consensus that the most likely outcome in tomorrow's election...
Podcast #24 – Federal election nominations and housing policy
Ben is joined by El Gibbs and Gareth Bryant to discuss the final declaration of candidate nominations for the federal election, Clive Palmer's United...
The informal rate is rising, but more votes have been counted
After my post on Friday evening about turnout levels I've also done some further analysis into the rate of informal voting at the recent...
Queensland government backflips on compulsory preferences for councils
The Queensland government has dropped the key piece of its council reform package, by abandoning plans to change the council voting system, a change...
Podcast #33: Council elections in South-East Queensland
Ben is joined again by Alexis Pink from 4ZZZ to discuss elections for the councils surrounding the City of Brisbane: Gold Coast, Ipswich, Moreton...
Tasmanian LC results live
11:21pm - So this is where I'll leave tonight's brief and sporadic liveblog. I've put together booth maps showing the ordinary election day votes...
NZ 2020 – new electoral boundaries
Earlier this week I made a last-minute decision to do some analysis of the New Zealand election, including the new electoral boundaries.
I discovered that...
WA 2021 – the impact of the redistribution
Western Australia conducts redistributions of the state electoral boundaries every four years, so each election sees a new set of electoral boundaries.
The recent redistribution...
Tasmania 2021 – parties keep improving in the upper house
With the final results now in from the Tasmanian state election, I wanted to go back to a post I wrote in early April...
Postal voting falls short in South Gippsland
There is a local council election currently being held in South Gippsland Shire in eastern Victoria.
South Gippsland's former dysfunctional council was sacked in 2019...