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...
Victorian government vs local democracy
In the wake of the federal election you may have missed a story about how the Victorian government is planning to change the way that Victorian local councils are elected, something which will be disastrous for local democracy and has come completely out of...
NT redistribution – draft boundaries released
While we've been focused on the federal election, redistributions have been progressing for the local Legislative Assemblies in both the ACT and the Northern Territory.
I blogged about the population numbers in the NT in April, and since then the first draft of the boundaries...