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...
Tale of three maps: Batman, Macquarie and Richmond
As a further taste of the seat guides being posted now on the Tally Room (53 and counting), I thought I'd run through another three interesting seats. Today these three seats are all seats with above-average Greens votes, but also with a wide variation...