Changing voting patterns slow down declaration of seats
Most people who read this website would have a reasonably good sense of the formal process of counting ballots: the counting of a primary...
Victoria 2022 – candidate update
I've recently completed an update of my candidate list for the Victorian state election, and I'm now publishing the list for the first time....
14 votes, 13 votes, 12 votes
As a follow-up to Saturday's post I wanted to revisit the question of how much the WA Senate recount result was effected by the...
Prospects for changes in federal seat numbers
After every election, there is a process to determine how many electorates each state and territory is entitled to at the following federal election....
Podcast #88: NSW election final week
With the NSW state election coming up this weekend, Ben is joined by Kevin Bonham to discuss the upper house race and what to...
The six-seat Senate dilemma
I've written before about the peculiar way that single transferable vote works differently with districts electing an odd number of representatives, as opposed to...
Rockingham by-election open thread
9:15 - It looks like we've got most of the 2PP count we'll get tonight and the swing is sitting on just over 22%,...
Referendum day open thread
Polls have just opened in south-eastern Australia in the first federal constitutional referendum in a quarter-century on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice...
Victoria implements single-member wards in local councils
We've known it's coming for about four years, but the Victorian government has finally implemented the final stage of legislation first passed in 2020,...
Podcast #118: India goes to the polls
Ben is joined by Sofia Ammassari from Griffith University to discuss the upcoming Indian federal election.
The world's largest democracy is going to the polls...