By-election coming up in Currumbin
There will be a by-election in a marginal LNP seat in Queensland in the next few months after Liberal National MP Jann Stuckey announced her resignation.
Stuckey has held Currumbin since 2004 and won in 2017 by a 3.3% margin. Stuckey announced last week she...
WA redistribution – final boundaries
I managed to overlook a new electoral development amongst a rush of moving house at the end of last year: the final boundaries for the next Western Australian state election were confirmed at the end of November.
There is very little in the way of...
Guide to Brisbane City Council 2020 – now up
I have just finished my first full seat guide since the federal election, and it covers the Brisbane City Council election, due on March 28.
Brisbane City is the largest council in Australia by quite a long way and in some ways more resembles a...
Australian Election Study released
The results of the Australian Election Study was released yesterday morning with a great deal of information about how and why Australians voted at the recent federal election. The AES is a long-standing study which has been conducted on every federal election since 1987,...
You can’t just legislate ‘fairness’ in our voting system
The South Australian Liberal government failed on Tuesday in its attempt to restore the "fairness clause" which used to apply to SA state redistributions. The clause was an attempt to ensure the "correct" winner in state elections by requiring the redistribution commissioners to draw...