Guides to Manly and North Shore by-elections
By-elections are due to be held soon in the two New South Wales seats of Manly and North Shore. The two seats sit side-by-side on the north side of Sydney Harbour, and are both very safe Liberal seats.
The seat of Manly was held by...
Where does One Nation get its votes in WA?
The Western Australian state election, to be held in March, will be the first electoral test of One Nation since they won four seats in the Senate in last year's federal election.
Since the party hasn't been a significant factor in recent state elections, we...
Read the guide to the 2017 WA state election
Voters in Western Australia go to the polls on March 11 for their state election.
I have published a complete guide to all of the races in that election: all 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly, and the 36 seats to be elected to represent...
NSW council mergers hit a wall – and may go backwards
After multiple years of making plans and implementing them, the NSW government is now on the verge of announcing something which should have come much sooner. For councils that have already been amalgamated, there will be plebiscites where voters will be asked to decide on...
NSW council elections – turnout drops statewide
It's taken some time to pull together the data, but I've now got a complete set of booth-level data from the 2012 and 2016 local council elections.
The most interesting stat from the elections is that turnout dropped across almost all councils which held elections...
Orange by-election summary
While the results in Wollongong and Canterbury were less interesting (Labor retained both seats), the result in Orange was fascinating.
The Nationals vote has cratered, but those votes did not go to Labor. Instead the Shooters were the main beneficiary.
The Nationals vote crashed from 66%...