NSW 2019 – the race in inland NSW
This area covers ten electorates, stretching from two seats in the New England region down to Murray and Albury on the Victorian border.
It's quite possibly the most interesting region in the election. On a two-party-preferred basis, not a single one of these seats is...
NSW 2019 – rising minor parties of the left
When I was analysing the list of candidates running in the state election yesterday, I was a bit surprised by which minor parties were running the largest number of Legislative Assembly candidates.
Three parties outside of Labor, Greens and the Coalition ran over 40 candidates:...
NSW 2019 – nominations close
Nominations closed yesterday for the 2019 NSW state election, with an increase in lower house candidates but a decrease in upper house candidates compared to the 2015 election.
568 candidates nominated for the Legislative Assembly. This is an increase from 540 in 2015 and 498...
NSW 2019 – pre-poll and iVote changing the way we vote
At the upcoming NSW state election, we should expect more people than ever before to cast their votes early, while others will use online voting, making ordinary election-day voting a relatively smaller proportion of the total vote.
This story is not entirely unique to New...
NSW 2019 – the race on the North Coast
There are eight seats covering the north coast of New South Wales, stretching from Myall Lakes to Tweed.
Seven of these seats are held by the Nationals, while the eighth seat was won off the Nationals by the Greens in 2015.
This is one of the...
NSW 2019 – the race in Western Sydney
Over the next few weeks I will be running regular blog posts analysing various parts of the NSW state election. This will include summaries of the race in six geographic regions, starting today with the western half of Sydney.
Western Sydney has become a cliche...