Let’s not praise the Australian electoral system too much
There's been a lot of discussion in the last few days about the merit of Australia's electoral system. In response to some conservative attacks...
Booth map of the day – northern Tasmania
Tasmania flew under the radar in the lead up to the recent election, because of the lack of state polling in Tasmania. It was...
Booth map of the day – suburban Brisbane
My last few booth maps have been focused on the non-classic races - the Greens in Melbourne, and the teals in Melbourne, Sydney and...
The ever-complexifying House count
In 2022 I wrote a blog post where I explained the phenomenon of the AEC needing to do more distribution of preferences before declaring...
Booth map of the day – teal Sydney and Curtin
For today's blog post, I thought I'd wrap up the remaining urban teal contests in Sydney and Perth.
To start with, this map shows the...
Booth map of the day – teal Melbourne
For today's booth map we're staying in Melbourne but heading slightly south-east, to look at the two incumbent teal MPs in Melbourne: Zoe Daniel's...
Podcast #149: The most complex count ever?
Ben was joined by Kevin Bonham to run through the close seats and the Senate race that have dragged out, one week after the...
Booth map of the day – inner north of Melbourne
Throughout this week, and perhaps the next, I will be posting booth maps for interesting seats, or clusters of seats. I will be doing...
Senate count update – a left-wing landslide
The House of Representatives contest has been a very comfortable win for Labor, and this has also been reflected in the Senate.
One of the...
Close seats liveblog
5:19 - Over 80% of the vote has been added to the Flinders 2CP count, including every vote that's not an ordinary election day...