Read the guide to the 2017 WA state election
Voters in Western Australia go to the polls on March 11 for their state election.
I have published a complete guide to all of the races in that election: all 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly, and the 36 seats to be elected to represent...
NSW council mergers hit a wall – and may go backwards
After multiple years of making plans and implementing them, the NSW government is now on the verge of announcing something which should have come much sooner. For councils that have already been amalgamated, there will be plebiscites where voters will be asked to decide on...
NSW council elections – turnout drops statewide
It's taken some time to pull together the data, but I've now got a complete set of booth-level data from the 2012 and 2016 local council elections.
The most interesting stat from the elections is that turnout dropped across almost all councils which held elections...
Orange by-election summary
While the results in Wollongong and Canterbury were less interesting (Labor retained both seats), the result in Orange was fascinating.
The Nationals vote has cratered, but those votes did not go to Labor. Instead the Shooters were the main beneficiary.
The Nationals vote crashed from 66%...
SA state redistribution – draft boundary analysis
While we were all recovering from the federal election, South Australia was undergoing a redrawing of its state electoral map for the 2018 state election. The draft electoral map was released in mid-August, and I blogged about the underlying statistics driving the redistribution at the...