New freebies from the Victorian guide
We're about four months out from the Victorian state election, and I've just finished a quick update to my list of candidates for that...
What voters made up Labor’s election-winning coalition?
As of yesterday, the results of the 2022 federal election have been finalised and move to the results archive. One of the last pieces...
NSW guide launched
While the federal election is now over, the two biggest state elections in Australia are just around the corner: Victoria in November, and New...
How often do MPs in PNG win re-election?
Papua New Guinea's electoral system on the surface looks quite similar to the system we have in Australia, with preferential voting and single-member electorates....
Winning candidate vote shares in Papua New Guinea
In Friday's blog post, I looked at the number of candidates running per seat in Papua New Guinea elections. Specifically how the number of...
Ballots are big, but not getting bigger, in PNG
Voting has now commenced in Papua New Guinea's national election, with voitng due to conclude by July 22. Over the next week I'm going...
New map – PNG electoral boundaries
Papua New Guinea goes to the polls next month to elect the national parliament, and for the first time since 1977 there has been...
Podcast #77: PNG election preview
Ben is joined by Maholopa Laveil from the University of Papua New Guinea to discuss the upcoming Papua New Guinea national election, with voting...
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...