Polls have now opened in the Tasmanian state election. Feel free to use this post to share interesting tidbits or developments throughout the day.
There’ll be another post at 6pm, although I’ll primarily be contributing to the Guardian.
Tasmania’s election is coming up this Saturday (check out my guide here!), and two recent polls suggest the campaign has shifted in favour of the Liberal Party.
Saturday’s Reachtel put the Liberal Party in the lead on 48%, followed by Labor on 32% and the Greens on 12.5%.
Today’s EMRS poll put the Liberal Party on 46%, followed by Labor on 34% and the Greens on 12%.
The official list of nominations for lower house seats in the South Australian election was published late yesterday afternoon, and I have now updated all 47 seat profiles.
264 candidates nominated, an increase from 204 in 2014. This is due to an increasing number of minor parties running large numbers of candidates.
Nominations were announced today for the Tasmanian election. 109 candidates have nominated, with six parties running candidates.
This is a drop from 126 candidates running 2014, but it is still more candidates than ran in 2010 or 2006.
Labor, Liberal and the Greens are running full tickets across all five seats. Labor is actually running a sixth candidate in Lyons.
There will be a state election for the seat of Cottesloe in Western Australia on March 17, to elect a successor to former Liberal premier Colin Barnett. He had announced his retirement in December, with the election date announced yesterday.
This election will coincide with the South Australian election, and is the third election scheduled for March, with a possibility that the Batman federal by-election will also be held in March.
Federal Labor MP David Feeney has just announced that he will be resigning from his seat of Batman after failing to prove that he had renounced his British citizenship, and won’t be contesting the subsequent by-election.
It is expected that the race will be between five-time Greens candidate Alex Bhathal and ACTU president Ged Kearney.
In recent months, federal redistributions have been completed for Tasmania, the Northern Territory and Queensland, with Queensland’s being finalised on January 5.
Over the break I’ve been working to expand the size of this website’s data repository. If you’re new to this, the repository publishes state and local election results that may not otherwise be available in an easy-to-access format.
I’ve added five more datasets over the new year:
It appears that the Tasmanian premier, Will Hodgman, will today call the state election for March 3. For the first time since 2002, the Tasmanian election won’t coincide with the South Australian election, set for March 17.
I’ve got a new addition to the data repository – my collection of complete and clean election datasets. I’ve now posted the results of the 2014 Victorian state election. This dataset includes: