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Batman by-election results Candidate Party Primary Primary % Swing 2PP votes 2PP % 2PP Swing Yvonne Gentle Rise Up Australia 1895 2.56 2.56 Ged Kearney Labor 31226 42.22 8.01 39483 53.38 2.1 Alex Bhathal Greens 30470 41.19 5.57 34483 46.62 -2.1 Kevin Bailey Conservatives 4724 6.39 6.39 Tegan Burns People's Party 358 0.48 0.48 Debbie Robinson Liberty Alliance 957 1.29 1.29 Teresa Van Lieshout Independent 875 1.18 1.18 Adrian Whitehead Independent 617 0.83 0.83 Mark McDonald Sustainable Australia 737 1 1 Miranda Smith Animal Justice 2107 2.85 1.42 Primary booths reporting: 44/52 2CP booths reporting: 44/52 Last updated at: 23:06 11:23pm - As for South Australia, the Liberal Party has won government,...

Polls have now opened in the South Australian state election and the federal Batman by-election, and will be opening in the state by-election in Cottesloe within the next half-hour. This post is mostly to provide a place to discuss today's events, but I did want...

We are now entering the final stages of the Tasmanian election's preference distributions. After all votes were collected, preferences began to be distributed yesterday, with substantial progress yesterday and today. Kevin Bonham has been doing a great job of tracking the preference distributions in his...

So we finally have booth breakdowns of the Tasmanian election results - and for the first time these have been published as spreadsheets (rather than PDFs or image files) which made it much easier to analyse. And they have also finally published the list...

My estimate at the end of Saturday night was that the Liberal Party had won 13 seats, Labor 8 and the Greens one, with three seats still in play: in Bass, Braddon and Franklin. I don't plan to follow these counts in minute detail but...

10:13pm - If you've appreciated my coverage of this election, now would be a good time to think about signing up as a patron. I'll be covering this election further in the coming days, with maps breaking down what happened across the state, and of...

Polls have now opened in the Tasmanian state election. Feel free to use this post to share interesting tidbits or developments throughout the day. There'll be another post at 6pm, although I'll primarily be contributing to the Guardian. If you're looking for something to occupy yourself...

Tasmania's election is coming up this Saturday (check out my guide here!), and two recent polls suggest the campaign has shifted in favour of the Liberal Party. Saturday's Reachtel put the Liberal Party in the lead on 48%, followed by Labor on 32% and the...

The official list of nominations for lower house seats in the South Australian election was published late yesterday afternoon, and I have now updated all 47 seat profiles. 264 candidates nominated, an increase from 204 in 2014. This is due to an increasing number of...

Nominations were announced today for the Tasmanian election. 109 candidates have nominated, with six parties running candidates. This is a drop from 126 candidates running 2014, but it is still more candidates than ran in 2010 or 2006. Labor, Liberal and the Greens are running full...