The ever-complexifying House count

In 2022 I wrote a blog post where I explained the phenomenon of the AEC needing to do more distribution of preferences before declaring...

Booth map of the day – teal Sydney and Curtin

For today's blog post, I thought I'd wrap up the remaining urban teal contests in Sydney and Perth. To start with, this map shows the...

Booth map of the day – teal Melbourne

For today's booth map we're staying in Melbourne but heading slightly south-east, to look at the two incumbent teal MPs in Melbourne: Zoe Daniel's...

Podcast #149: The most complex count ever?

Ben was joined by Kevin Bonham to run through the close seats and the Senate race that have dragged out, one week after the...

Booth map of the day – inner north of Melbourne

Throughout this week, and perhaps the next, I will be posting booth maps for interesting seats, or clusters of seats. I will be doing...

Senate count update – a left-wing landslide

The House of Representatives contest has been a very comfortable win for Labor, and this has also been reflected in the Senate. One of the...

Close seats liveblog

5:19 - Over 80% of the vote has been added to the Flinders 2CP count, including every vote that's not an ordinary election day...

Close seats tracking, part 3 – the 3CP counts

The Australian Electoral Commission has now started publishing three-candidate-preferred counts for some electorates where the final two are not clear. They have published seat-level...

Close seats tracking, part 2

For tonight's update, I'm going to first touch on the races I included in this morning's post and how they have changed. Those are...

Close seats tracking, part 1 – the conventional close races

At the time of writing on Monday evening, there appear to be 17 close seats worth following over the next few days. By my reckoning...