NSW 2019 – what would a hung parliament be like?
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You can treat this as an opportunity to post your last-minute election predictions.
There's a growing consensus that the most likely outcome in tomorrow's election is a hung parliament. That's certainly the opinion of the bookmakers.
But what would that hung parliament look like? The hung...
NSW 2019 – will we see “Just Vote 1” on Saturday?
New South Wales elections are different to the rest of Australia. In all other federal and state lower house elections featuring single-member electorates, we use compulsory preferential voting (CPV) - you need to number every box for your vote to count.
For NSW state elections,...
Podcast #20 – final week of the NSW election
Ben was joined by social researcher Rebecca Huntley and the Poll Bludger's William Bowe to talk about the key issues of the state election and the seats which will decide the result.
Rebecca Huntley's new issue of Quarterly Essay, Australia Fair
William Bowe's election blog Poll...
NSW 2019 – the race in the Hunter and the Central Coast
The Hunter and the Central Coast is a region mostly dominated by Labor, who recovered most of their ground in 2015 after a disastrous election in 2011.
At the 2011 state election, the Liberal Party won all four seats on the Central Coast as well...
NSW 2019 – final how-to-votes released
We received a flood of new information about the state election yesterday morning at 8am, when the NSW Electoral Commission published every piece of electoral material registered to be used on election day (mostly how-to-votes).
It's taken quite some time to open all of the...
NSW 2019 – the race in eastern Sydney
Today I'm focusing on a block of 29 seats in the eastern half of Sydney. This area doesn't really identify as "eastern Sydney" but could be defined as a number of smaller regions: the inner west, eastern suburbs, north shore, northern beaches, St George...
How many numbers is too many?
I wrote yesterday about the Queensland government's slate of reforms to Queensland local government elections, most of which I think are excellent. I focused on the shift to proportional representation for undivided councils (which is mostly synonymous with small regional councils).
I would love for...
Help back in proportional representation for QLD councils
The Queensland government has recently announced plans to introduce proportional representation to some council elections as part of a broad set of reforms. This proposal is a significant improvement to the local electoral system, but is facing a fierce backlash from self-interested groups, in...
NSW 2019 – join the conversation
One of the most fun parts of this website in the lead-up to an election is the comments on each seat guide. Every seat guide has its own comment section where you can discuss that electorate and what is going on.
I thought it would...
NSW 2019 – how about the Shooters?
One of the most interesting features of this election is the radically increased significance of the party now called the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers.
The Shooters Party was founded in 1992 by John Tingle, who won a seat in the NSW upper house in 1995....