Below-the-line rates go up in 2019
This is the latest in my occasional series looking back at the final results of the 2019 federal election.
The 2019 federal election was the...
Voting system change boosts Labor and Greens in Brisbane City
I posted back in March about the Queensland government's proposed reforms to local government in that state. The reforms include a bunch of other...
NSW to raise council election costs to make private providers “competitive”
New South Wales council elections are due in September 2020, which means that local councils right now are having to decide who they will...
NT redistribution – changes to a handful of seats in second draft
I blogged about the draft boundaries for the Northern Territory redistribution before I took a break back in June. At the end of July,...
Brisbane City – draft redistribution margins
The Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ) last Friday released the draft boundaries for the Brisbane City Council election, due in March 2020. I've now...
ACT redistribution finalised
Along with the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Brisbane City Council, the ACT has also been redrawing its electoral boundaries for the local Legislative...
WA redistribution – draft boundaries map
The draft boundaries for the Western Australian state redistribution were released three weeks ago, but it has taken me some time to put together...
New dataset – upper house votes from South Australia
It may have taken about 500 days to be published, but the Electoral Commission of South Australia finally published the complete statistics report for...
South Australian council voting – back to cheap and ugly?
South Australia is now the third state government to announce plans to tinker with the voting system for local councils this year, joining Queensland...
Preference flows – dive into the map
The Australian Electoral Commission finalised the results of the 2019 federal election last week (now available at results.aec.gov.au) and this included the publication of...