Canada electoral map finished up

As a late Christmas present, I have finally completed my Google Earth electoral map of Canada. I haven't completed the three territory ridings of...

2009 election preview: United Kingdom

The next UK general election must be held by June 2010, so strictly it may not take place within 2009. All UK general elections...

2009 election preview: Queensland state election

The Queensland Labor government will be attempting to win a fifth term in office at the state election in 2009. The election must be...

2009 election preview

With Christmas coming up soon and little in the way of electoral news, I thought I'd spend this week going through the major elections...

Minnesota Senate update

I've avoided trying to properly cover the ongoing count to determine the winner of the Senate seat in Minnesota, between Republican Senator Norm Coleman...

Queensland redistribution prospects

In addition to New South Wales losing a seat, Queensland will be gaining one. For the purpose of analysis, I broke up the state's...

NSW redistribution prospects

There will be a redistribution this year which should see NSW lose its 49th seat to Queensland, which will require one seat to be...

Gordon Brown coming back in the UK

Gordon Brown had a pretty awful year, with losses of safe seats in by-elections and massive poll leads for David Cameron's Conservatives. But since...

NSW state Newspoll: ALP vote collapses

The latest Newspoll on NSW state politics has the Labor Party collapsing to levels even lower than seen in the last century. With the...

First Dog on the Moon takes on Labor-Green tensions

I'm hoping to write some analysis of the consequences of Rudd's climate change announcement tomorrow, but I thought you'd enjoy today's First Dog on...