Below-the-line rates go up in 2019
This is the latest in my occasional series looking back at the final results of the 2019 federal election.
The 2019 federal election was the second election held under the new Senate voting system, which included changes to make it easier to vote below-the-line. The...
Voting system change boosts Labor and Greens in Brisbane City
I posted back in March about the Queensland government's proposed reforms to local government in that state. The reforms include a bunch of other changes to electoral finance and council procedures, but I focused on two proposed changes: introducing compulsory preferential voting for single-member...
NSW to raise council election costs to make private providers “competitive”
New South Wales council elections are due in September 2020, which means that local councils right now are having to decide who they will contract to run their election.
This may seem strange to people not familiar with NSW council elections. In most states, all...
Brisbane City – draft redistribution margins
The Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ) last Friday released the draft boundaries for the Brisbane City Council election, due in March 2020. I've now put together a map of the electoral boundaries, and I've also calculated margins in all 26 wards, as well as...
ACT redistribution finalised
Along with the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Brisbane City Council, the ACT has also been redrawing its electoral boundaries for the local Legislative Assembly, with the boundaries finalised in July.
In this post I'll share a map showing the changes to the electoral boundaries,...
WA redistribution – draft boundaries map
The draft boundaries for the Western Australian state redistribution were released three weeks ago, but it has taken me some time to put together the map of the new boundaries, which are available for download now.
The commissioners implausibly managed to avoid moving an electorate...
New dataset – upper house votes from South Australia
It may have taken about 500 days to be published, but the Electoral Commission of South Australia finally published the complete statistics report for the 2018 state election two weeks ago, on July 31. This report was the first place to include the upper...
South Australian council voting – back to cheap and ugly?
South Australia is now the third state government to announce plans to tinker with the voting system for local councils this year, joining Queensland and Victoria. I've given cautious support for parts of the Queensland plan which would bring in proportional representation (PR) for...
Preference flows – dive into the map
The Australian Electoral Commission finalised the results of the 2019 federal election last week (now available at results.aec.gov.au) and this included the publication of data showing how primary votes for each candidate flowed on a two-candidate-preferred basis, as well as two-party-preferred flows for each...