The House-Senate vote difference

While there's a lot of similarities in how Australians vote between the House and the Senate, they've never voted exactly the same. For a...

Tasmanian election guide launched

While my focus has been very much on the federal election, events have been developing in Tasmania, which culminated in a vote of no...

Podcast #150: Bradfield was a draw, for a moment there

For this podcast Ben interviews two scrutineers about their experience in the recounts: Adelaide, a Liberal scrutineer from Bradfield, and KJ, an independent scrutineer...

Are seats getting closer? Maybe not

We are still waiting for the final 2PP figures - they've finished in 149 seats and have even started the 2PP count in Bradfield...

Senate preferences playing a bigger role

Yesterday's final result in New South Wales was a bit of a surprise, with One Nation closing a primary vote margin of 0.21 quotas....

Correcting some of the 2CP swings

Prior to the election, I drew attention to the differences between my calculations and those of the AEC for a number of non-classic seats...

Turnout is up, and election day is down

We are now getting to the point in the election count where all of the primary votes appear to have been counted. We don't...

Observations from the Bradfield recount

I had the opportunity today to visit the Bradfield recount, thanks to being appointed as a scrutineer. I did not attempt to challenge any...

Breaking down the informal vote

The vote count is now getting to a point where pretty much all primary votes have been counted, even if we don't have all...

Senate button pushes – live blog

Friday 2:47pm - The distribution of preferences has been published in New South Wales, and here is the last three rounds. In the third-last...