Greens preselect in inner-Sydney seats

The Greens have now preselected candidates for the two seats in Sydney's inner city where the party has performed most strongly in the past. These candidates join other prominent Greens inner-city candidates Adam Bandt, running in Melbourne, and former Democrats leader Andrew Bartlett, running...

South Australia 2010: predictions

Following yesterday's prediction of the results in Saturday's Tasmanian election, I have now put together a prediction of the result in South Australia. I haven't followed South Australia as closely as I have with Tasmania, so I have mostly made the changes based on...

Tasmania 2010: predictions

I have previously made predictions of election results for a number of elections, including Queensland in 2009 and elections for the ACT, Canada and the United States in 2008. I thought it was about time to post predictions for this weekend's elections in Tasmania...

Tasmanian poll: Greens outpoll Labor

Another EMRS poll has been released over the weekend in Tasmania, which reinforces the trend seen in a February poll towards record levels of support for the Tasmanian Greens. While it appears that the full breakdown of results has not been published online (only appearing...

Greens surge in Tasmanian poll

The Tasmanian campaign has kicked into gear today with a poll from pollsters EMRS showing a surge in support for the Tasmanian Greens. The poll has shown statewide results of 39% for the Liberal Party, 31% for the ALP and 27% for the Greens. EMRS...

Altona by-election day

I haven't really been covering the campaign for the Victorian state electorate of Altona before today's by-election. Altona is a safe Labor seat in the Western suburbs of Melbourne, sitting on Port Philip Bay. Altona is going to the polls to elect a successor to...

Guide to the Tasmanian election posted

I have now posted a guide to the Tasmanian state election, which will be held on March 20, 2010. This includes profiles of Tasmania's five state electorates. Continue reading...

New pages on the blog

I have now posted a page on the blog profiling the upcoming South Australian election, which you can read here. I have also now posted a tutorial explaining some of the ways you can use the Google Earth maps posted on this blog to make...

Brown proposes referendum on preference voting

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday announced plans to hold a referendum on changing the electoral system for the House of Commons to the "Alternative Vote" system, a preference voting system similar to that used in Australia. Electoral analysis has shown that preference voting would...

What seat should I do next?

I've now finished seat profiles for 56 out of 150 House of Representatives seats. I've now finished profiles for all seats under a 4% margin as well as fifteen with higher margins. I'm continuing to work on them as quickly as possible but I...