How will the regions be represented in the WA upper house?

The upcoming Western Australian state election will feature quite a change to WA elections, with the upper house being elected at large as a...

Podcast #138: WA gets a new upper house

Ben is joined by Martin Drum from the University of Notre Dame to discuss the new electoral system for the Western Australian Legislative Council...

New datasets available for late 2024 elections

Today I'm announcing some work that was mostly finished at the end of last year but was put on hold until the new year,...

Comparing the MRPs

British polling company YouGov published their first MRP report for the 2025 election cycle, becoming the second company to publish an MRP during this...

WA candidates announced

Nominations closed on Thursday for the WA state election. The nomination information was published late on Thursday and on Friday night I finished publishing...

Podcast #137: Setting the federal scene

Ben was joined by Shaun Ratcliff from Accent Research to discuss the state of play as the federal election year kicks off. They discuss...

Guide published for Tasmanian upper house

Elections are held for Tasmania's upper house every year, usually in May. I've now finished my guide to the three races to be contested...

Prahran and Werribee by-elections live

8:00am - It appears that the final pre-poll figures for Werribee came in just after midnight, and the Labor lead increased slightly to 441...

WA election guide unlocked

We are now just over a month out from the Western Australian state election. The writs will be issued tomorrow, and nominations close next...

Port Macquarie set up for Liberal-Nationals contest after retirement

A by-election is incoming for the NSW north coast state seat of Port Macquarie. This seat had previously been a safe Nationals seat, although it...