Brisbane 2020 – election-day turnout crashes

The election results from Brisbane have been pretty messy so I haven't tried to stay on top of all of it. At the moment it looks like Labor, the Greens and the independent have retained the 7 wards they currently hold and the LNP...

Queensland election – state of play one day later

I was planning a deeper analysis looking at the proportion of votes which have reported, and what it tells us about how low the turnout was on election day but unfortunately I've had some issues with the data coming out of the ECQ, so...

Queensland elections – election night live

7:07am - Overall we are seeing a trend of swings against the LNP and to the Greens, with Labor gaining in some places and losing in others. The Greens in particular appear to have strengthened their position in the inner-city wards of Coorparoo, Paddington...

Queensland council elections – how low can election day go?

We are still waiting for results from today's Queensland council elections, but this election is on track to look very different to past elections, with only a small proportion of Queenslanders voting on the day. The Electoral Commission of Queensland has estimated that about 1.2...

Queensland elections – election day open thread

Polls have just opened for election day for the Queensland council elections and two state by-elections. Please feel free to use this post to discuss the election. I'll have a liveblog at 6pm Queensland time. The ECQ has announced that 1.2 million people have already...

Brisbane City – races to watch

The biggest election to be held on Saturday will be for the City of Brisbane, which is Australia's most populous and most powerful local government. If you haven't already checked out my guide to this election, you can read it here. The guide features profiles...

Queensland elections – record numbers of early votes

We are now just three days away from the Queensland council elections (along with two state by-elections), and there is more and more evidence that record numbers of voters are casting ballots before election day. Firstly, the final number of applications for postal votes was...

Tasmanian upper house elections delayed

We've now got our first case of an Australian election delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Tasmania holds elections to its upper house on the first Saturday in May every year for 2-3 seats. This year those elections for Huon in the south-west of the...

QLD by-elections – rare polls released

Two polls were published yesterday in the Courier Mail pointing towards possibly interesting results in the two Queensland state by-elections due for this Saturday. In the Labor seat of Bundamba, which on paper is a safe seat, the poll found One Nation in second place, and...

Podcast #34: COVID-19 and Queensland elections

Ben is joined by Glenn Kefford and Chris Salisbury from the University of Queensland to discuss the Queensland state by-elections and the City of Brisbane election, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these elections. We recorded this episode remotely from each...