Thinking of voting below the line?
Western Australia is the last place in Australia where the voting system strongly pushes voters into casting a vote which hands total control of...
WA 2021 – the not-so-level playing field for the upper house
Australia has a long history of electoral systems that slant the playing field in favour of particular ideological positions, favouring certain voters over others....
Podcast #49: WA election update
We return to the WA election today, with Ben joined by the ABC's Jacob Kagi and the University of Sydney's Stewart Jackson, who discuss...
WA 2021 – the shape of the swing
By now we all know to expect a landslide victory for WA Labor in this month's state election. The polls predict it, and even...
WA 2021 – the impact of the redistribution
Western Australia conducts redistributions of the state electoral boundaries every four years, so each election sees a new set of electoral boundaries.
The recent redistribution...
WA 2021 – early voting opens
Early voting will open on Wednesday in the Western Australian state election, with pre-poll voting open for the better part of three weeks.
Over the...
Podcast #48: introduction to the WA election
We're back for 2021, and on this week's podcast Ben is joined by Christine Cunningham and Martin Drum to get us up to speed...
Queensland 2020 – new data showing change in method of voting
I spent some time over the summer compiling new datasets for some of the elections held in 2020. At the moment I have published...
WA 2021 – upper house preferences released
Western Australia's upper house still uses the discredited group voting ticket system to distribute preferences, the same system last used for the Senate in...
WA 2021 – final candidates announced
Nominations closed in Western Australia on Friday, with a record number of candidates nominating in both houses.
463 candidates have nominated for the Legislative Assembly,...