NSW by-election guides complete
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I've been absent over the last two weeks as I've been moving house. This has unfortunately prevented me from covering the aftermath of the WA state election as much as I would've liked, and slowed down work on other elections.
I've now completed a guide...
WA election night live
10:47pm - I'm going to call it a night. One final point to note is that the ABC upper house results page has just flipped the final seat in Mining and Pastoral from One Nation to the Shooters.
10:35pm - South West (33% counted):
South West...
WA election – one day to go
I haven't been posting much about the Western Australian election recently, but wanted to quickly touch base on the final day of the campaign.
I was in the Guardian last Friday writing about the campaign. Since then more polls have suggested enough of a swing to...
Queensland redistribution – first draft released
The first draft of Queensland's new state electoral map was released this morning, after a broad outline was leaked last night.
The redistribution is the first in almost a decade, and the redistribution will see four additional seats created in the Assembly. The combination of these...
Data update – Tasmanian upper house dataset
A few months ago I published a limited data repository, containing booth lists, candidate lists and election results at the booth level for a variety of state and local elections. At the time I talked about how most state electoral commissions fell short of...
Map update – South Australia and Tasmanian upper house
I've recently completed two new maps for download and use: the (kind of) final boundaries for the 2018 South Australian state election, and draft boundaries for the Tasmanian upper house.
South Australia's state redistribution was overshadowed by the federal election last year. A final set...
WA upper house preferences – Lib/Nat alliance cracks
Western Australia still uses the group voting ticket system for its Legislative Council - the system used for the Senate until 2013. Under this system, parties submit preference orders which are pre-filled for any voters who vote for that party above the line. These...
Nominations close for WA state election
Nominations closed yesterday for the Western Australian state election, to be held four weeks from today.
415 candidates have nominated for the lower house. Labor, Liberal and the Greens have each nominated a full team of 59 candidates. The Micro Business Party (no I hadn't heard...
Guides to Manly and North Shore by-elections
By-elections are due to be held soon in the two New South Wales seats of Manly and North Shore. The two seats sit side-by-side on the north side of Sydney Harbour, and are both very safe Liberal seats.
The seat of Manly was held by...
Where does One Nation get its votes in WA?
The Western Australian state election, to be held in March, will be the first electoral test of One Nation since they won four seats in the Senate in last year's federal election.
Since the party hasn't been a significant factor in recent state elections, we...