South Australian state redistribution – draft map published
The Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission of South Australia (EDBC) this morning released their draft electoral map for the 2022 South Australian election.
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We’re about to enter another busy period in Australian elections. The Northern Territory votes next Saturday, followed by the ACT, Queensland and Victorian local councils in October. We also have a Western Australian state election in March, and a federal election could be held as early as August 2021.
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Podcast #39: Introducing the NT election
Ben is joined by Robyn Smith, historian of the Northern Territory, to discuss the upcoming NT election – recent political events, the party system, some seats to watch, and the peculiar nature of NT elections.
Robyn mentioned Weekends with Walshy, which features in the podcast feed for Territory Story.
Check out Ben’s guide to the NT election.
NT 2020 – nominations close
Nominations closed yesterday for the upcoming Northern Territory election. 115 candidates have nominated, with three parties running in most seats. I’ve put together a dataset with all the candidates, and some analysis on who is running, and where.
Podcast #38: Tasmanian upper house preview
Ben is joined by Kevin Bonham to talk about next weekend’s elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
Apologies for lower quality audio on Ben’s part – but it should still be perfectly clear.
SA government proposes optional preferential voting
The South Australian government announced earlier this week that they plan to introduce legislation that will change the voting system from compulsory preferential voting (CPV) to optional preferential voting (OPV).
NSW redistribution – parsing the major party submissions
The NSW redistribution has passed through its first stage, with the publication of suggestions about how the new electoral map should be drawn. Suggestions closed on July 1, but it’s taken me some time to be able to properly process them.
Coming up next: Tasmanian upper house elections
The next election in Australia will be taking place two weeks from tomorrow. It is the most peculiar of Australia’s regular elections: the Tasmanian upper house election.
Northern Territory election guide complete
The Northern Territory general election is due next month, on August 22nd.
The first-term Gunner Labor government will be seeking a second term, while their opposition is split between the Country Liberal Party and the new Territory Alliance.
Podcast #37 – Eden-Monaro results and state seat entitlements
Ben is joined by William Bowe, the Poll Bludger, to discuss the results of the Eden-Monaro by-election. We then digressed into a discussion of the determination of entitlements of House of Representatives seats for each state, including the abolition of the Northern Territory’s second seat and long-term trends for Victoria and Western Australia.