NT 2020 – late counting update
Over a week after the Northern Territory election, there are still four seats where the count is extremely close. I thought I might run through these races quickly.
These four seats are Araluen, Barkly, Blain and Namatjira.
Labor has won thirteen seats (including Arnhem and Fong...
South Australian redistribution – draft map completed
It's taken me a bit longer than I originally planned, but I've now created a digital map file for the South Australian state redistribution, for the election due in March 2022. This is a draft - the final map is due towards the end...
Eden-Monaro preference flows released
The Australian Electoral Commission released the final data from the Eden-Monaro by-election earlier this week. This data breaks down the two-party-preferred preference flows between Labor and Liberal based on the primary vote of the voter. This data allows us to look at how voters...
NT 2020 – election day decline by the numbers
We expected election day to be a smaller factor in the Northern Territory election, and now we have the data to back it up.
Most, if not all, votes from election day have now been counted, along with most pre-poll votes. We are still waiting...
Podcast #41: NT election results
Ben chatted with Stewart Jackson about the results of last weekend's NT election.
You can subscribe to this podcast using this RSS feed in your podcast app of choice, but should also be able to find this podcast by searching for “the Tally Room”. If you like...
NT 2020 – election night live
Labor - 11 won, 1 likely, 4 ahead
CLP - 2 won, 1 likely, 3 ahead
IND - 2 won
TA - 1 ahead
6:21am - Since I went to bed last night I've got a few quick updates. This will be the last update of this post.
At...
NT 2020 – election day
8:00am - Polls have just opened for election day in the Northern Territory.
There has been a tremendous number of votes cast before election day. As of Friday evening, over 75,000 votes have been cast - that includes pre-poll votes, mobile polling in small communities,...
Podcast #40: The day before the NT election
Ben was joined today by Duncan McDonnell from Griffith University and podcast regular Kevin Bonham to discuss tomorrow's election in the Northern Territory.
Check out Ben's guide to the NT election.
You can subscribe to this podcast using this RSS feed in your podcast app of choice, but...
NT election – early voting increases
The NT Electoral Commission (NTEC) has been publishing daily updates with the number of voters who have cast an early vote.
As of last night, 51,680 voters had cast an early vote, either at pre-poll centres or via mobile booths in remote communities. This is...
South Australian state redistribution – draft map published
The Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission of South Australia (EDBC) this morning released their draft electoral map for the 2022 South Australian election.
The map is the first to be drawn since the repeal of the 'fairness provision' which required the Commission to draw boundaries that...