Podcast #59: Ryde council election
Ben is joined by local Ryde resident Rose Torossian to discuss the Ryde council election, with a detour into discussion of the merits of...
A chance to fix WA’s broken council voting system
Western Australia's local councils are elected using the most backwards and least fair voting system in all of Australia, and the WA state government...
NSW councils – measuring the magnitude
One of the main things that determines the shape of an electoral system is the number of elected members elected for each constituency. It's...
Podcast #58: Wollongong and Shoalhaven
Ben is joined by Nick McLaren, lead news reporter for ABC Illawarra, to discuss the council elections for Wollongong and Shoalhaven, along with a...
Which councillors are having another go?
Following up on Monday's blog post, I've also added information about whether each candidate is an incumbent councillor to my dataset of 1402 candidates...
Podcast #57: Inner West and City of Sydney council elections
Today I'm joined by Allison Hore from the Inner West Review to discuss the council elections for the City of Sydney and the Inner...
NSW council elections – who is running, and how many?
I've just finished compiling my list of the 1402 candidates running for council or mayor in the 24 most populous councils, the ones featured...
Liberals retreat from Sydney councils
Nominations for the NSW local government elections closed on Wednesday, with the ballot draw held yesterday.
The Liberal Party, who had been steadily increasing their...
Mapping the NSW mayoral elections
When 127 NSW local councils go to the polls over the coming weeks, most voters will just get to vote for their local councillors...
Podcast #56: Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai
Ben is joined by Tina Brown, editor of the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Post, to discuss the council elections in Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai.
Ku-ring-gai in particular has...