Ryde council by-election a failure of policy
There's a by-election taking place today in the West ward of Ryde council in the northern suburbs of Sydney. The by-election was triggered by...
First Greens MP retirement in single-member seat announced
Earlier today it was announced that Greens MP Jamie Parker is retiring from his seat of Balmain at next March's state election.
This is an...
Historical trends added to state election guides
I've recently finished adding a new feature to my seat guides for the Victorian and New South Wales state elections and I wanted to...
Where the independents are running
In yesterday's blog post I analysed the statistics from my latest Victorian election candidate update, but I wanted to pull out one thing to...
Victoria 2022 – candidate update
I've recently completed an update of my candidate list for the Victorian state election, and I'm now publishing the list for the first time....
New data update – South Australian elections since 2002
I've recently finished adding three more datasets to the Tally Room data repository - the repository now contains complete datasets for the 2002, 2006...
Smaller wards not the answer to informal voting in NT councils
I've recently been made aware of a process in the Northern Territory which is reviewing the ward structures of local councils following last year's...
Fannie Bay by-election live
Sunday morning final update - So I think we will still get some declaration votes but the scale of the votes is likely to...
Massive new update to data repository
Some of you may not be aware that this website contains a data repository with election results data from all over Australia. The repository...
Podcast #78: Bringing down the ecological fallacy
A lot of analysis of the recent federal election used aggregate data and made assumptions about individual voting trends, but now we have some...