Which seats swing the most?

Last month I posted an analysis looking at how much seats have moved in terms of their two-party-preferred rank, relative to every other seat...

Early voting update

Today is the fourth day of pre-poll voting, and it seemed like a good time to check in on how many people have voted...

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...