Podcast #25 – Pre-poll and the federal campaign in NSW

Ben was joined by Rodney Smith from the University of Sydney to discuss the surge in pre-poll voting and the key races in New South Wales. You can subscribe to this podcast usingĀ this RSS feedĀ in your podcast app of choice, but should also be able...

Federal 2019 – the race in Western Australia

Western Australia has sixteen seats in the House of Representatives, and these seats strongly favour the Liberal Party. Labor holds five seats, while the Liberal Party holds the other eleven. The Liberal Party has dominated Western Australia at federal elections since Kim Beazley's departure from...

Federal 2019 – the race in South-East Queensland

19There are twenty seats in south-east Queensland, stretching from the Gold Coast in the south to the Sunshine Coast in the north. South-East Queensland currently contains thirteen Liberal National Party (LNP) seats and seven Labor seats. Brisbane proper is dominated by Labor, with five Labor...

Disendorsements again and again

One of the surprising dynamics of the last week has been the large number of candidates who have been disendorsed by their party. From last Monday to Friday there were six candidates from three parties who were disendorsed by their party. Labor's Wayne Kurnoth was disendorsed...

Pre-poll stats update

One of the developing stories this week has been the continuing increase in pre-poll voting at this year's election. The AEC publishes daily updates with the number of votes cast at each pre-poll centre per day, allowing us to track how many people are...

Can you get elected from below the line?

2016 was a good year for candidates overcoming their party's Senate ballot order. We saw Tasmanian Labor senator Lisa Singh win re-election as one of five Labor senators despite being ranked sixth on her party list, with the candidate ranked above her, John Short,...

Podcast #24 – Federal election nominations and housing policy

Ben is joined by El Gibbs and Gareth Bryant to discuss the final declaration of candidate nominations for the federal election, Clive Palmer's United Australia Party and the role of housing policy in the election. Thanks to 2SER radio in Sydney for the use of...

Gender balance in winnable seats

I posted earlier this week about the number of candidates running for each party, with a breakdown of candidates by gender. I had a number of questions about how many of these candidates are running in winnable seats. In this post I run through the...

Nominations close – final candidate numbers breakdown

Nominations were announced yesterday, with a small increase in lower house candidates but a substantial shrinking of the size of Senate ballot papers. 1056 candidates have nominated for the House of Representatives, a slight increase from the 994 who nominated in 2016, but still less...

Clive Palmer’s case against the 2CP

Clive Palmer, newly returning to federal politics at the head of his United Australia Party, has been pursuing a case in the High Court which could change the way election nights take place in this country. I thought I'd run through the main points...