Shaking out bias in the election night count
In Monday's blog post, I ran through the data on the rate at which election results come in on election night: the rate in...
Podcast #73: The Australian Polling Council
We return again today to the polls, talking to two more pollsters from some of Australia's biggest political polls: Campbell White from YouGov/Newspoll and...
The election night time curve
I think those of us who have followed a lot of Australian elections have some instinctive sense of how election night progresses - when...
Who wins the early vote?
As a final part in my series on trends in people voting early, today I'm analysing differences in how people vote, depending on whether...
Getting the nominations balance right
There was a really interesting story in the Guardian yesterday from Michael McGowan and Joe Hinchliffe about a prospective One Nation candidate and his...
Which seats have the highest rates of early voting?
This is a follow-up to Monday's blog post, which explored the trends away from election day voting at the federal level, and how those...
Podcast #72: Minor parties on the right
Ben is joined today by Ben Moffitt from the Australian Catholic University to talk about right-wing minor parties and their role in the federal...
The shift towards early voting
There has been a long term trend in Australian politics of voters shifting away from casting a ballot on election day, in favour of...
Guide for next Saturday’s Tasmanian upper house elections
Tasmania's upper house holds elections every year in May, with two or three out of the 15 electorates up for election each year, over...
Will larger ballot papers drive up informal voting?
This election will see a record number of candidates on the ballot paper for the House of Representatives, with 1203 candidates running, up from...