The Australian Electoral Commission yesterday announced the final decision for the federal redistributions in Victoria and Western Australia.
Unfortunately the AEC hasn’t yet published the maps, digital boundary files or data matching each SA1 to each electorate. While it may be possible to estimate these, I don’t have capacity with all of the elections going on now.
The final determination will be published on September 24 for Western Australia and October 17 for Victoria, so I will attempt to update my margin estimates then.
For now, I just wanted to summarise the electorates that have undergone some changes since the first draft. If a seat is not mentioned, that means the draft margin estimate should stand.
For Victoria:
- Ballarat retains an area proposed to go into Bendigo
- Bendigo gains an area proposed to stay with Nicholls
- Chisholm and Hotham swapped areas
- Corangamite retains an area proposed to go into Wannon
- McEwen and Scullin swapped areas
Thus nine out of thirty-eight seats have been adjusted.
For Western Australia:
- Canning retains an area proposed to go into Forrest
- Cowan retains an area proposed to go into Hasluck
- Fremantle and Tangney swapped areas
Thus six out of sixteen seats have been adjusted.