Guide to Brisbane City Council 2020 – now up
I have just finished my first full seat guide since the federal election, and it covers the Brisbane City Council election, due on March 28.
Brisbane City is the largest council in Australia by quite a long way and in some ways more resembles a...
Australian Election Study released
The results of the Australian Election Study was released yesterday morning with a great deal of information about how and why Australians voted at the recent federal election. The AES is a long-standing study which has been conducted on every federal election since 1987,...
You can’t just legislate ‘fairness’ in our voting system
The South Australian Liberal government failed on Tuesday in its attempt to restore the "fairness clause" which used to apply to SA state redistributions. The clause was an attempt to ensure the "correct" winner in state elections by requiring the redistribution commissioners to draw...
New data – NSW 2019 election results
I've added a new dataset to my data repository. This dataset covers the entire results of the 2019 New South Wales state election.
The dataset includes voting figures at the polling place and electorate level for both houses, including two-candidate-preferred and two-party-preferred data for the...
Brisbane City – final boundaries
The final ward boundaries for Brisbane City Council were released last Friday. These boundaries will apply for next March's council election.
The changes from the draft boundaries were relatively mild, although it was enough to push Doboy from being very marginal for the LNP to...