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...
NSW council elections – the undecided races
With the addition of iVotes on Wednesday night, the number of races in play is starting to shrink and we are getting closer to the final primary vote figures for each council race.
In this post I'm going to run through each of the 24...
The council party trends across Sydney
The withdrawal of the Liberal Party from a number of large Sydney councils has unsurprisingly led to a decline in the Sydney-wide Liberal vote, while Labor and the Greens have produced their highest primary vote in Greater Sydney since 2004. It may well be...
What trends can we see in council results?
Up until this point, most of my analysis of the NSW council elections has been contained to one council.
In one sense this makes sense - each local council is its own little polity and has its own stories. Part of what I find fascinating...
Highlights from smaller councils
Before I zoom out, I thought I would also highlight some of the smaller councils that grabbed my interest. There are simply too many councils to cover them all, but these are a few that have been sent to me.
Byron
The Greens have held the...
Call of the board, part 2
After some spotty live results earlier in the night, I turned last night's liveblog into a run through of the end-of-night results in some of the biggest councils, covering Bayside to Lake Macquarie alphabetically before collapsing to bed at 1am. Here I go continuing...