The NT Electoral Commission (NTEC) has been publishing daily updates with the number of voters who have cast an early vote.
As of last night, 51,680 voters had cast an early vote, either at pre-poll centres or via mobile booths in remote communities. This is 36.6% of the total enrolment in the territory.
The Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission of South Australia (EDBC) this morning released their draft electoral map for the 2022 South Australian election.
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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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.
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.
6:30pm – Polls closed thirty minutes ago in the Legislative Council elections in Huon and Rosevears in Tasmania. I won’t be doing a lot of early coverage but will be back later tonight with some more analysis once most of the election-day votes are in.
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.
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).
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.
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.