Welcome to the Tally Room’s guide to the next Australian federal election. This guide will include comprehensive coverage of each seat’s history, geography, political situation and results of the 2022 election, as well as maps and tables showing those results.
On this page you can find links to each individual profile for one third of all House of Representatives electorates, and the Senate contests in the six states and the two territories.
This guide is a work in progress. For now profiles have only been prepared for fifty electorates, as well as profiles for the eight Senate contests. Profiles for the 100 seats in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia will be produced once the redistribution concludes in 2024.
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Table of contents:
Local electorate profiles
Profiles have been produced for 50 out of 150 House of Representatives electorates: those in Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
Profiles for electorates in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia will need to wait for the conclusions of redistributions in 2024.
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You can use the following map to click on any lower house seat, and then click through to the relevant guide where available.
Senate profiles
Profiles have been written for the Senate races in all six states and both territories.
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- Northern Territory
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@daniel t labor just dont seem to have what it takes to govern federally. at a state level they are about health and education the staples of what people want. federally they dont stand for anything bcause people epect their federal govt to be good at things like border and national security. these are not labors strong suits and given the party is more to the left then it use to be they are weak in these areas. they are basically the party of protest when pople get sick and tired o the coalition. in 2007 everybody loved kevin07 the man from qld who was “here to help” everybody but his own party. they disintegrated quikly and should have lost the 2010 but only survived because of two turncoat nationals backing the other team. now well lets face it noone voted for labor and albo they were mainy coting against scott morrison. albo is more focused on token policies like climate change and the voice instead of the real issues. he also is going from one crisis to the next but its never his fault.
@Daniel T Except Labor weren’t unpopular under Rudd, they got us through the GFC (albeit with significant help from Howard’s 10 surpluses and China), led by a greater margin than the 07 election for most of their term, and were so confident that Abbott was unelectable that some Labor MPs held a fucking party the day after he became Leader of the Opposition.
But what should they do to win more often? That is my question. What policies should they moderate or scrap?
It’s not in Labor’s corporate DNA to take a firm position on anything, apart from promising the world and not delivering.
Take 2022 – Labor won on the perception that Brittany Higgins had been done wrong by the Morrison Cabinet and Albo would put all that behind us.
The other day we learn that the Defence Minister’s COS has been locked out of her office for 5 months, told to look for another job, no other communication to her from the Government and the Governmet is now lawyerig up.
No solution, but Labor is a Party of Permanent Opposition, even when it’s in Government.
@Nimalan every single Tasmanian Aboriginal (i.e Aboriginals who have heritage in Tassie) is what’s commonly called a “half-caste”, which is essentially someone who is half-Aboriginal. Truganini was the last “full-blood” Tasmanian Aboriginal as well as the last person who spoke a Tasmanian Aboriginal language as their mother tongue (or native language). She died in 1876. Palawa Kani (literally meaning “Aboriginal language”; Palawa Kani is the Aboriginal language used in Tassie now, mostly in place names e.g Lutruwita/Tasmania, Nipaluna/Hobart) is a constructed language based on words from various Tasmanian Aboriginal languages and dialects.
@Daniel T Labor should go back to standing up for the working-class instead of standing up for union bosses and become more moderate instead of trying to be woker so they can pick up a couple of new voters who would otherwise vote Greens.
Labor did get us through the GFC but as Scart said it was only because the economy was so damn good under Howard, it’s just that Rudd didn’t completely fuck it up either.
Also, Labor are currently in power federally and in every jurisdiction bar Tasmania and the Northern Territory, so I don’t think Australia is a “right-wing wasteland”.
Agree John, Gympie and NP – Labor in its current form is not really suited to governing federally because you have to offer strategic direction and priorities for the nation which appear to be strong points for the Coalition. Labor under Hawke-Keating were successful because they were like Tony Blair as UK Prime Minister, being statesman like.
At the same time, Labor can govern well at the state level because the priorities are more of a localised theme focusing on infrastructure development and service delivery. Particularly when the Coalition parties are too busy engaging with internal disputes or fringe issues. Having said that, there have been successful Coalition governments too, with NSW and Tasmania being the two recent ones that held onto power for 10+ years, mostly by avoiding too much infighting and prioritising state development as their talking points.
The comments here definitely have a liberal hue. Remember most au elections are close. 1998 2010 2016 2019 and to a lesser extent 2022( small absolute majority but coalition were quite a distance from a majority)
Morrison anticipation contributed to 2019 win.and
Morrison in office contributed to 2022 win.
But he was not the only reason the lnp in government grew lazy and corrupt . Their fighting about climate change policy and refusal to have an icac were major reasons for rhe Teals 7 seats. The 2025 election will again be close .majority alp minority alp minority lnp or a very outside chance of lnp majority. Seats like Whitlam Werriwa Paterson Dobell Eden Monaro Parramatta will not change hands. In Queensland Blair will not change hands and labor has a chance in Leichhardt. At best the lnp will win.Ryan off the greens.
The best case in Victoria is the status quo for the libs with a chance of labor winning 1 to 2 seats. Sa similar with an alp chance in Sturt. Lingari had a transition of mp in 2022 there is a good chance the alp mp can entrench themselves. Lyons is not certain to shift parties nor is Gilmore or Bennelong . Most teals and independents will be reelected
@Mick Quinlivan I think Paterson will flip.
@ NP
I am hoping Palawa will one day show up in Lyons, Braddon etc as the main minority language and hope more people speak it.