Councillors elected per party, and the rise of parties in regional NSW

Last week I updated my blog post analysing the vote for the bigger parties across Greater Sydney, with a map showing vote and swings. In...

Wagga Wagga’s very close referendum

As my last blog post of the year, I thought I would focus on the closest of all the referendums held alongside the council...

Mapping the Dubbo referendum

One of the most interesting contests at the 2021 council elections was the referendum on abolishing the wards for Dubbo Regional Council. The council was...

Council party trends, updated

This is a quick post updating this post from shortly after the council elections with the final results after the conclusion of the count. I...

Turnout up, informal down

With the final election results declared by Wednesday, I've finally been able to calculate the informal and turnout rates. There's been a lot of discussion...

NSW council elections – some of the closest results

All election results for the NSW council elections have now been declared, but some seats have been so close that there have been attempts...

NSW council elections thread

That's it for the liveblog. I will be back with further analysis tomorrow. Wednesday 2:07pm - The last eight of the big councils have reported...

Inner West deamalgamation results

EDIT: I have discovered an error in the official election results which appear to have transposed Tempe High with Summer Hill Community Centre. The...

Podcast #62: NSW council election results

Ben was joined by Osmond Chiu for the final episode of 2021 to discuss the results of the NSW council elections. We ran through...

NSW council referendums update

The pace of counting for many of the referendums and polls has been frustratingly slow, being stuck in the queue behind election counting. Some councils...