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...
Podcast #76: Federal election wrap-up
Ben is joined by William Bowe from the Poll Bludger to wrap up the 2022 federal election. We discuss the undecided Senate races, the...
Is the Coalition one party, two parties or four parties?
There's been a lot of chatter online in the last few days challenging calculations about the low primary vote for the newly-elected Labor government,...
How might an election have played out under PR?
On Wednesday I published a blog post arguing that the House of Representatives electoral system needs to change to proportional representation, but I stayed...