NSW 2011: reckless predictions

With two days to go, it's time to make some predictions. Lots of predictions have been made, some on individual seat threads and others on...

Liberal Party happy for CDP to discriminate

It's been reported today that the Liberal Party is preferencing Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party in the Legislative Council in 86 of 93 seats. The...

Eva Cox’s bizarre take on preferencing

There has been a lot of talk about the possibilities of small right-wing parties holding the balance of power in the Legislative Council, and...

Final Labor candidates announced

I have recently been working on a project where I broke down the gender of all candidates from the Coalition, Labor and the Greens....

NSW 2011: 17 days to go

It's been a few days now since I posted on the front page about NSW politics, so I thought it was time to open...

Preference flows in the NSW Legislative Council

In the last few days, there has been much media interest in the decision of the Greens NSW to not direct preferences to the...

Results in Ireland

It is now Sunday evening in the Republic of Ireland, and most seats have been decided in their general election. The overall result is...

Irish election results liveblog

11:10am - We're getting early figures in for a bunch of constituencies. They are all confirming the trend that we have seen. In Donegal...

Ireland 2011: the electoral system

Ireland's electoral system is one that is relatively familiar to Australians, but quite unusual around the world, using a system similar to Hare-Clark, used...

Ireland 2011: the final week

Ireland goes to the polls this Friday in a general election that will likely see a massive shift in Irish politics. The current Irish government...