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...

The turnout so far

After a week of vote-counting, I thought it would be a good time to look at how turnout looks compared to the last round...

The informal rate (so far) in NSW councils

There's been a lot of discussion about the high levels of informal voting in the NSW council elections, often with an air of alarm...

NSW council elections – the undecided races

With the addition of iVotes on Wednesday night, the number of races in play is starting to shrink and we are getting closer to...

The council party trends across Sydney

The withdrawal of the Liberal Party from a number of large Sydney councils has unsurprisingly led to a decline in the Sydney-wide Liberal vote,...

What trends can we see in council results?

Up until this point, most of my analysis of the NSW council elections has been contained to one council. In one sense this makes sense...