NSW 2011: results

8:52 - Seats that Labor currently appears to have lost to the Coalition: Blue Mountains, Camden, Campbelltown, Charlestown, Coogee, Drummoyne, Gosford, Heathcote, Londonderry, Maitland, Menai, Miranda, Mulgoa, Parramatta, Riverstone, Rockdale, Smithfield, Strathfield, The Entrance, Wollondilly and Wyong. The Nationals have gained Bathurst, but have...

NSW election open thread

The people of New South Wales are going to the polls today in a state election. The Coalition is expected to win a massive majority, with the Labor Party facing one of their worst results in the party's history. Use this thread to discuss the...

NSW 2011: reckless predictions

With two days to go, it's time to make some predictions. Lots of predictions have been made, some on individual seat threads and others on general NSW threads, but I thought it was time to bring them all together and make a stab myself. I expect...

Liberal Party happy for CDP to discriminate

It's been reported today that the Liberal Party is preferencing Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party in the Legislative Council in 86 of 93 seats. The seven seats where they are exhausting are Coogee, Sydney, Auburn, Bankstown, Granville, Lakemba and Liverpool. There has been a theory that...

Eva Cox’s bizarre take on preferencing

There has been a lot of talk about the possibilities of small right-wing parties holding the balance of power in the Legislative Council, and the effect this would have on NSW politics. I've already dealt with a lot of the fear and misinformation in...

Final Labor candidates announced

I have recently been working on a project where I broke down the gender of all candidates from the Coalition, Labor and the Greens. The Greens and the Coalition both finalised their list of candidates a few weeks ago, but it has been impossible...

NSW 2011: 17 days to go

It's been a few days now since I posted on the front page about NSW politics, so I thought it was time to open a new thread for any general discussion of NSW politics. Nominations are open this week, with candidate names gradually being posted...

Preference flows in the NSW Legislative Council

In the last few days, there has been much media interest in the decision of the Greens NSW to not direct preferences to the Labor Party in the Legislative Council on their how-to-vote cards. This provoked a fierce response from Labor party figures such as...

Results in Ireland

It is now Sunday evening in the Republic of Ireland, and most seats have been decided in their general election. The overall result is clear, with the governing Fianna Fail party decimated, their government partner the Green Party completely eliminated from the Dail, and...

Irish election results liveblog

11:10am - We're getting early figures in for a bunch of constituencies. They are all confirming the trend that we have seen. In Donegal South-West, the Deputy PM, Mary Coughlan, is in trouble. 9:04am - I've been doing some number-crunching of the 2007 election results...