Moreton Bay voters deprived of choice in the council election

I have focused my analysis of the upcoming Queensland council elections on the City of Brisbane for a number of reasons. It is the most populous council in Australia, but it also has elections that are strongly partisan, with Labor, the LNP and the...

Nominations close in Brisbane City, and across Queensland

Nominations closed on Tuesday for the two Queensland state by-elections and the Queensland council elections, all to be held on March 16. I have now updated my candidate lists for my Brisbane City, Inala and Ipswich West guides. For this post I'm most interested in...

Tasmanian election called, likely for March 23

It has been looking more and more likely that Tasmania would be going to an election in recent weeks, with the premier, Jeremy Rockliff, demanding new assurances from two ex-Liberal independents and threatening to go to an election if those demands weren't met. Those two...

Podcast #111: Indonesia goes to the polls

Ben is joined by Erin Cook from Dari Mulut ke Mulut to discuss next week's national election in Indonesia. We discuss the three candidates, the role of the outgoing president Jokowi in the race, the electoral system and the role of parties in Indonesia's...

Western Australian election guide launched

To complete my set of election guides for 2024 and 2025, I've just finished my guide to the 2025 Western Australian state election. The guide features profiles of all 59 lower house races and the new first ever statewide upper house election. The 2021 Western Australian...

WA redistribution numbers also change

Earlier today I posted about the change in Victoria's redistribution numbers, with the ABS acknowledging an error and changing the projected enrolment data. I won't repeat all the background, you can go read about it there. The same issue has arisen in WA, although it...

New numbers change Victorian federal redistribution equation

Federal redistributions in Australia rely on two sets of numbers - the actual enrolment numbers at the time that the process commences, and an estimate of how many voters will be enrolled at a future point, about three and a half years after the...

Yet another by-election – Dunstan in SA

A fourth by-election is now due to be held in the first half of 2024 - this time for the South Australian state seat of Dunstan. Dunstan has been held since 2010 by former Liberal premier Steven Marshall (named Norwood for his first term). This area...

Cook by-election incoming

News has broken today that former Liberal prime minister Scott Morrison will be retiring from politics at the end of February, thus triggering a by-election for his seat of Cook. There is a federal by-election for the seat of Dunkley due at the start of...

Tasmanian Legislative Council – guide launched

Tasmania holds a unique election every year. The fifteen members of the Legislative Council serve a six-year term, with each member representing a single-member electorate. Two or three seats are up for election each year in May. This year, the seats of Hobart and Prosser...