What’s happening in your seat?

Now that the 150-seat election guide is complete and public, I’ve been noticing the level of activity on the blog increasing massively – regularly breaking 3000 hits in a day, and almost 80,000 hits for the month of June.

In particular, the number of comments posted on the website has shot through the roof over the last few months, after the comments feed largely lying dormant for most of 2012.

In June, we hit 831 comments. This is the third-best month since the blog was created. Over 2000 comments were lodged in March 2011 for the NSW state election, and 844 comments were lodged in August 2010 for the last federal election.

On these numbers, I’m expecting even more of a surge in discussion on each electorate page as we head into this unusual discussion.

Every page has its own comments section, so please go to your page and tell us what is happening in your seat. What effect is Kevin Rudd’s return having on your local race? If you get a leaflet, why not go to Election Leaflets, upload the leaflet, and then post a comment linking to it on the relevant seat profile?

Some seats have already had a solid number of comments posted, and I thought readers might be interested in which seats have attracted the most comments.

Interestingly, despite the surge in comments, there are still six seats and one Senate race that have failed to attract a single comment, including the seat of Hotham where the ALP hasn’t yet chosen a candidate to succeed Simon Crean.

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