Victoria 2018 – minor party votes mapped
This is my last post for 2018, one final set of Victorian election maps. I'll be back in the new year with more coverage of the New South Wales and federal elections.
Today I'm looking at the distribution of the vote for two of the...
Victoria 2018 – mapping the below the line vote
There was a concerted effort before the recent Victorian state election from psephologists and other commentators to encourage voters to vote below-the-line.
I posted on the day after the election about the early figures, including the breakdown of below-the-line rates for each party. I won't...
Victoria 2018 – two-party-preferred, mapped
In today's edition, I'm updating a map I produced on request to include the two-party-preferred vote (and swing) in 87 out of 88 seats.
The VEC published two-party-preferred figures in seats where the two-candidate-preferred was not between Labor and Coalition (this electorate-level data is available...
Victoria 2018 – Greens vote, mapped
Today's maps focus on the performance of the Greens, who went backwards in terms of votes, yet managed to win a record number of lower house seats at a general election.
This first map shows the primary vote swing for the Greens in the 88...
Victoria 2018 – mapping the state
I have just finished my collection of election data for the Victorian state election.
This collection features the full list of booths with location information, the full list of candidates, primary vote and 2CP voting figures by booth, and voting figures by electorate and region...
Greens NSW – majoritarian preselections and walking away
I received an email yesterday from Justin Field, a Greens members of the NSW upper house, effectively laying out a threat that himself and his colleague Cate Faehrmann would quit the party unless the party met two of its demands:
https://twitter.com/benraue/status/1072732509757091840
Specifically they are asking that...