Podcast #46: The day before Queensland
Ben is joined by Glenn Kefford and Shaun Ratcliff to discuss tomorrow's Queensland state election.
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ACT 2020 – Friday morning update
Six days after the ACT election, we now have a fairly good sense of the shape of the Assembly. The Assembly will be led by an enlarged Labor-Greens majority, with Labor and Liberal both losing seats and the Greens gaining seats. There are two...
NZ 2020 – the seats and the swings
The New Zealand electoral system tends to produce a flattening effect on the results. Most electorate results don't really make a difference to the national outcome so the results analysis tends to just look at the national figures. But there is value in delving...
Podcast #45: ACT and NZ election results
Ben was joined by Jill Sheppard from the ANU to talk about the ACT election results, and to briefly touch on the New Zealand results.
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ACT & NZ election night live
10:22pm - I'm going to call it a night here. I'll be busy tomorrow so may not have any updates then, but will definitely have some posts next week including a podcast. Until then, the summary of the results:
Labour has won big in...
ACT election day – open thread
Polls have just opened in the ACT election.
I'm not planning to do regular updates through the day. Please use this as an open thread.
I'll see you at 5pm AEDT when I'll kick off the liveblog.
NZ election day with bonus 2017 booth map
Polls have just opened in New Zealand.
I did not do a comprehensive guide to the New Zealand election but I have managed to pull together a bit of data at the last minute. This post contains a map of every election day booth used...
NZ 2020 – new electoral boundaries
Earlier this week I made a last-minute decision to do some analysis of the New Zealand election, including the new electoral boundaries.
I discovered that no-one appears to have actually calculated the vote shares for the new electoral boundaries drawn since the 2017 election. So...
QLD 2020 – nominations close
Nominations closed yesterday for the Queensland state election. The number of candidates shot up to a record high, with more than six candidates running in the average seat.
There are a total of 597 candidates running across the 93 seats. This breaks the previous record...
NZ election – how thresholds could decide the majority
Labour has been doing very well in the polls in New Zealand, if a bit less well than they were earlier this year. It seems very likely that Labour will stay in government. But there are some scenarios where a majority of the country...