Victorian council ward reviews eradicating PR in Melbourne
39 Victorian councils are currently undergoing reviews of their electoral structure – the number of councillors, number of councillors per ward and the exact boundaries of those wards.
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NT redistribution – draft boundaries published
The draft boundaries for the next Northern Territory Legislative Assembly election in 2024 were released yesterday. Changes were mostly restricted to the Darwin-Palmerston area, and no seats have changed hands.
There was just one change outside of the northern urban area. An area around Timber Creek was moved from Daly into Gwojato the west of Katherine. This area is quite large in terms of land mass but only contained a few hundred voters.
Podcast #94: Moving forward in Thailand
Ben is joined by journalist Erin Cook to discuss last weekend’s national election in Thailand, which saw the progressive Move Forward win the most seats and set up prospects for a coalition government made up of parties that are not supporters of the royal and military elite that has run the country since the 2014 coup.
NSW 2023 – final dataset complete
I’ve now finished my dataset for the 2023 NSW state election and I’ve added it to the data repository.
The repository now has data for four successive NSW state elections, in addition to seven Queensland elections, five Victorian elections, six Western Australian elections, six South Australian elections, five New Zealand elections, and three ACT and NT elections respectively.
ACT redistribution – draft maps released
The draft electoral boundaries for the next ACT Legislative Assembly election were released this morning. You can find the report here, and the map of the boundaries here.
New dataset – referendum results
As I started to put my mind to the upcoming Voice referendum, I realised there was a surprising absence of data on the results of previous referendums. A number of people were trying to track down electorate-level results for the 1967 referendum (although as the referendum with the highest Yes vote, it’s not the most interesting to analyse) and it just wasn’t available on the internet.
Directly electing mayors – a livestream discussion
Last month I wrote a post explaining why I oppose mayors being directly elected by the voters rather than elected by their fellow councillors, specifically in the context of New South Wales local government, and precisely in reference to a current consultation in my local council in Parramatta.
Tasmanian upper house elections tonight
Voters in three Tasmanian Legislative Council divisions are voting today for members to represent those seats for the next six years.
I won’t be liveblogging tonight as I have another commitment. If you want to follow the results live, I recommend you follow Kevin Bonham’s blog.
Fadden by-election incoming
Federal Liberal MP Stuart Robert announced his retirement this morning from his northern Gold Coast electorate of Fadden. I think this probably will be a less interesting by-election than Aston, but we’ll see.
I’ve published my Fadden guide here for anyone who wants to get into it.
NSW 2023 – the growing early vote and the election night vote gap
As my final blog post about the 2023 NSW state election, I wanted to look back at how people cast their votes in 2023 – what method they used to vote, and how the results differed between those methods. I also touch on the different swings between different vote categories, and how this influenced the overestimation of Labor’s performance on election night.