NT redistribution – draft boundaries published
The draft boundaries for the next Northern Territory Legislative Assembly election in 2024 were released yesterday. Changes were mostly restricted to the Darwin-Palmerston area, and no seats have changed hands.
There was just one change outside of the northern urban area. An area around Timber...
NSW 2023 – final dataset complete
I've now finished my dataset for the 2023 NSW state election and I've added it to the data repository.
The repository now has data for four successive NSW state elections, in addition to seven Queensland elections, five Victorian elections, six Western Australian elections, six South...
ACT redistribution – draft maps released
The draft electoral boundaries for the next ACT Legislative Assembly election were released this morning. You can find the report here, and the map of the boundaries here.
Two of the five electorates were left untouched, while a population in the deficit in the southern...
Directly electing mayors – a livestream discussion
Last month I wrote a post explaining why I oppose mayors being directly elected by the voters rather than elected by their fellow councillors, specifically in the context of New South Wales local government, and precisely in reference to a current consultation in my...
Tasmanian upper house elections tonight
Voters in three Tasmanian Legislative Council divisions are voting today for members to represent those seats for the next six years.
I won't be liveblogging tonight as I have another commitment. If you want to follow the results live, I recommend you follow Kevin Bonham's...
Fadden by-election incoming
Federal Liberal MP Stuart Robert announced his retirement this morning from his northern Gold Coast electorate of Fadden. I think this probably will be a less interesting by-election than Aston, but we'll see.
I've published my Fadden guide here for anyone who wants to get...
NSW 2023 – the growing early vote and the election night vote gap
As my final blog post about the 2023 NSW state election, I wanted to look back at how people cast their votes in 2023 - what method they used to vote, and how the results differed between those methods. I also touch on the...
Proportionality of the NSW election result
Today's post is a follow-up to analysis I did of the recent federal and Victorian elections, looking at how the recent NSW election rates on measures of proportionality.
The federal and Victorian results hit new highs of disproportionality. While the NSW lower house result was...