Early voting update
The Australian Electoral Commission is publishing daily statistics on the number of postal vote applications (PVAs) received, and the number of votes cast at pre-poll centres. After six weeks of the campaign, and one week of pre-poll, we now have a sense of the...
Nominations announced – final update
Nominations were declared at midday yesterday, and I've just finished updating the candidate lists for each seat and the eight Senate races.
I wrote speculatively about the number of candidate nominations on Thursday in the Guardian. At the time of writing, 772 House of Representatives...
Candidate numbers update
I've written a piece for the Guardian going through the numbers of candidates running at this point.
Since I wrote that piece yesterday afternoon, I've identified nineteen more candidates:
The Nationals candidate for Hunter
The Labor candidate for Moore
And seventeen (!) Liberal Democrats lower house...
NSW council amalgamations – the never-ending election
Yesterday I posted a quick summary of the NSW government's council amalgamation announcement.
Today I wanted to run through the partisan impact of the councils being created, and the impacts on the next NSW council elections.
In December, I assessed the proposed council amalgamations by calculating...