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...

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...