Podcast #50: The day after the WA election
Ben is joined by William Bowe of the Poll Bludger to discuss Labor's massive landslide victory in yesterday's Western Australian state election, including running...
WA 2021 – the state of the upper house (part one)
In this post I run through the current state of the estimated preference distributions for four of the six upper house regions. I've run...
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...