The Australian federal election will be held at some point in the first half of 2025, and I have now completed my guide to all 150 electorates.
I published guides for 50 seats in mid-2023, but electorates in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia had to wait for the conclusion of redistributions. These redistributions concluded around the time of the Queensland election, and I’ve now finished all of these guides.
We are also part way through a minor redistribution of the two federal electorates in the Northern Territory. The likely outcome seems certain, so I have updated those two seat guides to reflect the proposed boundaries.
The guide also features profiles for the eight Senate contests.
Most of the guide is an exclusive to Tally Room members – those who donate $5 or more per month via Patreon. I’m going to be increasing the price for membership from $5 to $8 per month from the start of January, but if you join now you can lock in the lower price going forward.
I have unlocked a handful of profiles as a free sample. I’d already unlocked Dickson, Lyons and the Queensland Senate race, but now I’ve added the new seat of Bullwinkel, along with Gilmore and Macnamara.
You can find links to each profile from the guide front page. There is an alphabetical seat list, a list by state, a pendulum and a map. I’ve also posted the map below:
One final note: it will be a big ongoing job to track candidate lists. For now I haven’t added any candidates to the new 100 profiles, but I will be doing an update of my list over the course of the next week, and they’ll be added to profiles then.
@Darcy I believe that’s the week after. I think the 3rd of May is a bad idea because of school holidays and the 2 public holidays during prepoll.
Honestly, if one were concerned about prepolling during a public holiday, I’d simply cast my prepoll vote on a different day. Not really an issue.
@Real Talk unless it clashes with the Easter long weekend of course. But I think they’d try and avoid that.
As others have said it can’t be on Anzac Day or at Easter time as those are major public holidays. Probably wouldn’t be on Eid al-Fitr or Passover (Pesach) either as those are religious holidays.
id prefer it not to be on may 3rd as il be overseas for anexciting con that weekendin liverpool
I can see the Australian people being heartily sick of anything to do with politics by the time the election comes around – if it is May 17 that is another 8 1/2 weeks to go. Because there was so much speculation that it was going to be April 12 and it was delayed by the cyclone the campaign is just being dragged out and based on what happened in 1984 and 2016, long campaigns do not bode well for the party in power and they can lose control of the narrative.