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Ben is joined by Andrea Carson and Stewart Jackson to wrap up the Victorian election campaign and look forward to election night. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. You can subscribe...

There are two parties running in the Victorian state election which share parts of their name with the major parties. In recent years, as ballot papers have ballooned in size, these parties have sometimes benefited from voters confusing these parties. Indeed, if you plot...

No-one can be in any doubt about my attitude towards group voting tickets - they need to go, and in the meantime, everyone should vote below the line in Victoria. Often the arguments in favour of group voting tickets often focus on diversity in election...

There is a lot of conversation out there about voting below the line on the Legislative Council ballot for the Victorian state election. Usually when I talk about voting below the line, I emphasise how easy it is. You just need to number 1 to...

As is the story across Australia, there has been a shift away from election day voting in Victoria over the last decade, which could potentially culminate with a majority of voters casting their ballot before election day in 2022. I've collected data on the share...

When group voting tickets are used to elect a parliamentary body, it severs the clear link between the party's primary vote and whether they win a seat. So I wanted to explore what relationship does exist. What I've found is that while individual minor parties...

Ben is joined today by Kevin Bonham to talk about the Victorian upper house voting system. We discuss the group voting tickets released on Sunday, the dynamics of how the electoral system plays out, why you should vote below the line and the difference...

The group voting tickets for the Victorian Legislative Council were lodged yesterday. With a record 22 separate groups running statewide and ballot papers spilling onto a second row, there appears to be three broad groupings, with some breakdown in the minor party alliances of...

Victoria's ballot papers will be larger than ever, with lower house ballots in particular growing on average by about 46% compared to 2018, while upper house ballots will also reach a record size with the same 22 party tickets running statewide as group voting...

For the last few days I've been analysing how preferences flow under the group voting tickets, but of course not every voter votes above the line, and below-the-line votes don't obey the preference deals. For today's post I wanted to examine the question: what impact...