WA 2021 – the lower house result
The result in the lower house in yesterday's Western Australian state election was overwhelming and shows how the single-member voting system can produce massive...
WA 2021 – election night
4:38am - That's it for this liveblog. I'll be back later today with more considered and extensive analysis. Thanks for following along.
4:36am - About one...
WA 2021 – election day
It's now 8am in Western Australia, and polls have just opened for election day. We're expecting a record low proportion of Western Australian voters...
WA 2021 – what’s your guess?
Election day is tomorrow in Western Australia.
We haven't had any more proper polling since the Newspoll three weeks ago which gave Labor 68% of...
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...