Mapping the Dubbo referendum
One of the most interesting contests at the 2021 council elections was the referendum on abolishing the wards for Dubbo Regional Council.
The council was founded in 2016 as a merger of the old Dubbo council and its neighbour Wellington. Dubbo makes up the vast...
Council party trends, updated
This is a quick post updating this post from shortly after the council elections with the final results after the conclusion of the count.
I won't do much more analysis on the trends, but it's worth noting the final totals. Across Greater Sydney, the Labor...
Turnout up, informal down
With the final election results declared by Wednesday, I've finally been able to calculate the informal and turnout rates.
There's been a lot of discussion about informal rates being high, but this was premature. The early results included a lot of complex ballots in the...
NSW council elections – some of the closest results
All election results for the NSW council elections have now been declared, but some seats have been so close that there have been attempts to call for recounts. It seems very unlikely that any of these results could be overturned, particularly with the switch...
NSW council elections thread
That's it for the liveblog. I will be back with further analysis tomorrow.
Wednesday 2:07pm - The last eight of the big councils have reported this morning:
Hornsby - The Liberal Party won the mayoralty on Monday, but have now confirmed a solid majority on...
Inner West deamalgamation results
EDIT: I have discovered an error in the official election results which appear to have transposed Tempe High with Summer Hill Community Centre. The results suggested Tempe voted No and SHCC voted a very strong Yes, but it makes more sense with surrounding booths...
Podcast #62: NSW council election results
Ben was joined by Osmond Chiu for the final episode of 2021 to discuss the results of the NSW council elections. We ran through a few of the more interesting big councils, as well as the interesting referendum and plebiscite results.
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NSW council referendums update
The pace of counting for many of the referendums and polls has been frustratingly slow, being stuck in the queue behind election counting.
Some councils made a decent amount of progress on election night, with most others only now getting some figures. I thought I...
The turnout so far
After a week of vote-counting, I thought it would be a good time to look at how turnout looks compared to the last round of council elections in 2016-17.
Shortly before the election I posted about turnout levels at the 2012 and 2016-17 elections. Turnout...
The informal rate (so far) in NSW councils
There's been a lot of discussion about the high levels of informal voting in the NSW council elections, often with an air of alarm focused on just one council, without zooming out and seeing the broader trend.
The first results reported on election night had...