As part of the nomination process for the 2024 Victorian council elections, each candidate was asked to fill out a questionnaire. One of the questions was whether the candidate was endorsed by a party. Not everyone did the survey, but most candidates did. This means that it is possible to identify candidates endorsed by a registered party, but not as easily as it would be in other jurisdictions.
The Victorian council elections are now upon us – ballot papers are in the mail now, and will be counted on the day of the Queensland election, October 26.
I previously completed the first half of my council guide, covering the first 16 of 33 intended councils. But I had to scrap plans to do the rest when an ill-timed need for move house reduced my capacity for analysis.
Ben is joined by Jasper Lindell from the Canberra Times to preview the upcoming Australian Capital Territory election, with a Labor-Greens government facing the voters after 23 years of Labor government and 16 years of the Greens in the balance of power.
The Australian Electoral Commission today published the maps and data for the final boundaries for New South Wales for next year’s federal election, which makes it possible to calculate final margins and show maps of the new boundaries.
After the fold, the map shows the changes between the old boundaries, draft boundaries, and final boundaries.
Nominations closed today for the Queensland state election, with the full list of candidates now announced.
I have compiled my spreadsheet and am still working on collecting links for all the candidates and plan to have the final candidate lists up by tomorrow morning.
Former Liberal leader David Speirs resigned from parliament today, after his house was raised by police in relation to a video published last month, not long after his resignation from the leadership.
I have now published my guide for the Black by-election, which I expect to be held later this year or possibly early in 2025. The seat is held by just 2.7%, so could very well be in play.
Ben is joined by Dennis Atkins to preview the upcoming Queensland state election.
This is a very quick blog post as I am catching up on stuff that has been happening while moving house. On the very day that I moved house, nominations were announced for the ACT election.
I won’t be doing a lot on this specific candidate announcement, but the final lists of candidates have now been published on my election guide.
8:00am Monday – All of the results of NSW council elections conducted by the NSW Electoral Commission are due to be declared over the course of today and tomorrow.
The maps and data for the final WA federal redistribution were released on Tuesday this last week but unfortunately I was busy at the time packing up to move house the next day. I have now had a chance to update the analysis I published when the drafts were released.