Victorian Greens choose candidate in Richmond
The Victorian Greens on Friday announced their first candidate for a winnable seat for the November 2010 state election. The Greens will be running...
Martin Hamilton-Smith clings on
SA Liberal leader called a sudden leadership spill today in order to resolve the leadership issues over the 'dodgy documents' affair earlier this year...
Gender balance in NSW Parliament
I was looking the boundaries of the federal seat of Grayndler earlier today when I noticed that all five state electorates that overlap with...
Random election stat
I've been looking over the Senate results in the NSW seat of Grayndler at the last federal election, and I found this interesting information....
Death by a thousand polls
Well, three polls, at least.
In a moment of synchronicity, three of Australia's four pollsters have released federal voting intention polls, all clearly showing a...
Latest NSW Newspoll hits hard
The latest Newspoll has reversed the small gains made by Nathan Rees in the previous Newspoll, with the Coalition polling 41%, the ALP 31%...
NSW Greens choose Lee Rhiannon for Senate
In breaking news, the NSW Greens conducted their preselection ballot count yesterday, with Lee Rhiannon winning comfortably to be chosen for the first position...
5 things not to do when you’re trying to rig an election.
5. Rig an election where 80% of people turned out to vote
The turn out at the recent election in Iran was the...
Europe 2009 – summary
The overall results for the European Parliament were:
EPP-ED - 264
PES - 161
ALDE - 83
G/EFA - 53
EUL-NGL - 33
I/D - 18
UEN - 14
Other - 110
While...
Guest post at FairVote Blog
I've been taking a break post-EU but will be back to usual transmissions soon, with a final concluding post on the EU and a...