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...

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We're now just over two weeks out from the NSW state election, and probably ten weeks away from the federal election, and this website is kicking up a gear. I'm posting fortnightly podcasts, I've started doing regular blog posts every couple of days, and...

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...

Podcast #19 – The Greens and the changing NSW party system

Ben is joined by Stewart Jackson and Geoff Robinson to discuss the NSW state election, specifically the Greens, the moving apart of the NSW party system, and historical parallels. Thanks to 2SER radio in Sydney for the use of their studio. You can subscribe to this...

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 – not the same old contests

NSW state politics appears to be shifting away from a conventional Labor-Coalition contest, with different kinds of contests dominating in different regions. While there has been a general trend in Australian politics away from conventional Labor-Coalition contests and towards races which feature an independent or...

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...

New dataset – NSW 2011

I've added a new dataset to my data repository, as an exclusive for website donors, with the results of the 2011 NSW state election. This dataset covers both the lower house and upper house, including the full list of polling places (with latitudes, longitudes and...