Victorian councils – box opening day
Voting closed last night for the Victorian local government elections. Ballot boxes will be opened today and votes will start to be counted.
I believe...
ACT 2024 – how preferences decided the final seats
I have been watching the last week of counting in the ACT election, which eventually made it clear that the Greens' Laura Nuttall would...
Podcast #134: ACT election wrap-up
Ben is joined by ACT historian Chris Monnox and Tasmanian psephologist Kevin Bonham to dig into the results of last weekend's ACT election, looking...
Victorian council election guides finalised
I'm pleased to report that, in the final week of voting for the Victorian council elections, I've now finished my guide to the 33...
ACT and NSW by-elections live
11:43 - Finally, I wanted to wrap up the narratives of the ACT election.
Labor has been in power for 23 years, so it is not...
NT federal redistribution drafts released
The draft federal electoral boundaries for the Northern Territory were published earlier today.
This redistribution is far less dramatic than the redistributions for the three...
Podcast #133: Final week of the Queensland election
Ben is joined by Andrew Messenger from the Guardian to discuss the final stretch of the Queensland election campaign. We spend most of our...
Victorian federal redistribution – final margins
The AEC released the final maps and data for the Victorian federal redistribution earlier today. In this blog post I'm going to post my...
Mapping the candidate vote in the ACT
Under Hare-Clark, a party's total vote is not the only thing that matters for how many seats you win. In a close race, the...
Victorian wards and the size of the ballot
The number of distinct electoral contests in Victorian councils has shot through the roof this year. There were 260 in 2016, 298 in 2020,...