Victoria looks set to continue to use group voting tickets to elect its upper house in November’s election. Victoria is the only remaining jurisdiction still using the system after Western Australia recently moved to reform their upper house.
A common talking point when discussing Australia’s electoral system is that it eliminates the need for tactical voting. This is usually true, but there is a narrow set of cases in which tactical voting can be a relevant factor, and there may be more of these cases in 2022.
Nominations in the South Australian state election closed on Monday. The near-death of SA-Best has seen a decline in the number of candidates running in the lower house, but more parties are running than in 2018. There are also a lot more groups running in the upper house.
In this episode, Ben introduces the South Australian state election with Tom Richardson from InDaily.
We’re less than three weeks out from the next South Australian state election, and I’ll be covering that election in more depth over that time.
I’ve now unlocked the guide to the state election, so anyone can read any of the seat guides.
I’ll be posting the first podcast about the state election on Tuesday, and there’ll be more analysis as we get closer.
I have just finished a big update of my list of candidates running for the House of Representatives at the upcoming federal election, and I thought it was a good time to share this list.
The NSW Electoral Commission is currently in court seeking to have three council elections thrown out – not because of any failures on the part of any of the electoral participants, but because of the failure of the Commission’s own voting systems, which resulted in a number of voters failing to cast a ballot.
Saturday saw the first counting of postal votes, a week on from the four by-elections in New South Wales. The postal vote data in all four by-elections confirmed the pre-existing voting trends. In three by-elections, the leading candidate outperformed their pre-existing lead on pre-poll votes, while the Liberal Party did better on postal votes in Bega but still lost the postal vote, thus increasing the lead of the Labor candidate.
Ben is joined by William Bowe from the Poll Bludger to discuss Saturday’s by-elections in New South Wales, with a particular focus on how we analyse election results as increasing numbers of voters opt to use postal and pre-poll options.
Last night’s counting for the four New South Wales state by-elections probably set some records for the smallest proportion of the total vote to be counted.
There remains a large number of postal votes to be counted, along with quite a few pre-poll votes. In this post I thought I would run through the coming timeline, what I expect is left to be counted and some early trends that we can see about how the vote broke down.