Wentworth wrap-up – Liberals destroyed in heartland

Tonight's election result was very clear. A massive swing against the Liberal Party has pushed the Morrison coalition government into a minority position, with Dave Sharma losing a seat held by the conservative major party since federation, despite a 17.7% margin built up by...

Wentworth by-election live

9:33 - I'm going to end this liveblog here. We now have primary vote figures from all ordinary booths, and are just missing the 2CP data from Bondi Beach. We will also be waiting for pre-poll and postals to be reported, presumably most of...

Wentworth election day open thread

Polls have just opened in the federal by-election in the seat of Wentworth in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. I'll be back at 6pm to cover the results, but until then enjoy this open thread. You may like to read my guide to today's by-election.

No podcast this week

Apologies for this, I was planning to publish a podcast today about the Wentworth campaign and Victoria but some technical issues mean it won't be happening. I plan to put out a post-by-election podcast this Sunday then we'll be back in two weeks with...

New website design

Some of my more committed readers may have noticed that this website was unavailable late on Saturday night. Basically an attempt to install a new mobile theme screwed up the website and it took some time to fix the damage. This prompted me to realise...

The three Wentworths

When I produce seat guides, I always like to split up the polling places in the electorate into a number of subareas. I find that there are times where you want a sense of the different parts of the seat, but the granular detail of polling places can confuse the broader trends. Sometimes these subareas represent very clear and distinct divisions in a community, while sometimes they're more arbitrary. But I think my breakdown of Wentworth reflects some pretty strong differences within the seat which I think will play out on October 20.

New by-elections datasets available

I've just added a bunch of extra data to my collection, covering all of the recent by-elections. By-election data can often be even more scattered than general election data. I've avoided publishing federal election data, because the AEC does a thorough job, at least they...

Podcast #9 – Wentworth and Victoria

Ben is joined by William Bowe and Georgia Tkachuk to discuss the Wentworth by-election and to begin discussing the Victorian state election. Ben's analysis of how preferences could decide Wentworth Latest published Wentworth poll The Tally Room guide to the Victorian state election You can...

Here’s the complete Victorian election guide

I've finished posting the Victorian state election guide today, with all of the remaining seats available on the website now. Check out the guide You can use this map to click through to any seat guide: If you're finding this guide useful, please consider signing up as...

Vic 2018 – first draft of the candidate list

I've been trickling out seat guides for the Victorian election gradually for the last while. I've now posted 53 out of 88 lower house profiles, and guides to all eight upper house regions. At the moment I'm posting two seats per day. As part of...