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NSW by-elections live

Ben Raue - April 8, 2017

10:23pm - I'm going to stop here. The Liberal vote in North Shore has climbed back from 40.3% to 41.4%, and they're looking a bit more likely to hold on. 9:00pm - I think it's very unlikely that independent candidate Kathryn Ridge will be able...

Yet another by-election coming up on Saturday

Ben Raue - April 3, 2017

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In addition to three state by-elections which will be held on Saturday in New South Wales, there will also be two council by-elections: for Ward 2 of Blacktown council, and for Lithgow council. I profiled Blacktown council for last September's election so I figured it...

Tasmanian Legislative Council elections – guides posted

Ben Raue - March 28, 2017

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In addition to yesterday posting guides to the NSW by-elections, I've now also posted guides to the three seats in the Tasmanian upper house election which will hold elections on May 6. These three seats are: Launceston Murchison Rumney Each guide has maps showing the results...

NSW by-election guides complete

Ben Raue - March 27, 2017

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I've been absent over the last two weeks as I've been moving house. This has unfortunately prevented me from covering the aftermath of the WA state election as much as I would've liked, and slowed down work on other elections. I've now completed a guide...

WA election night live

Ben Raue - March 11, 2017

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10:47pm - I'm going to call it a night. One final point to note is that the ABC upper house results page has just flipped the final seat in Mining and Pastoral from One Nation to the Shooters. 10:35pm - South West (33% counted): South West...

WA election – one day to go

Ben Raue - March 10, 2017

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I haven't been posting much about the Western Australian election recently, but wanted to quickly touch base on the final day of the campaign. I was in the Guardian last Friday writing about the campaign. Since then more polls have suggested enough of a swing to...

Queensland redistribution – first draft released

Ben Raue - February 24, 2017

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The first draft of Queensland's new state electoral map was released this morning, after a broad outline was leaked last night. The redistribution is the first in almost a decade, and the redistribution will see four additional seats created in the Assembly. The combination of these...

Data update – Tasmanian upper house dataset

Ben Raue - February 16, 2017

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A few months ago I published a limited data repository, containing booth lists, candidate lists and election results at the booth level for a variety of state and local elections. At the time I talked about how most state electoral commissions fell short of...

Map update – South Australia and Tasmanian upper house

Ben Raue - February 15, 2017

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I've recently completed two new maps for download and use: the (kind of) final boundaries for the 2018 South Australian state election, and draft boundaries for the Tasmanian upper house. South Australia's state redistribution was overshadowed by the federal election last year. A final set...

WA upper house preferences – Lib/Nat alliance cracks

Ben Raue - February 14, 2017

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Western Australia still uses the group voting ticket system for its Legislative Council - the system used for the Senate until 2013. Under this system, parties submit preference orders which are pre-filled for any voters who vote for that party above the line. These...