A quick break from my holiday to deal with some nonsense claims made about preference flows at the Secret Harbour by-election ...

I’m currently in Bled, Slovenia, where I’m heading off on my latest European cycling holiday. More detail inside the post for ...

A quick post to let everyone know that I won’t be doing much posting on politics through September. That includes there being ...

Since One Nation’s breakthrough at the 1998 Queensland election, the party has had a mixed record of maintaining parliamentary beachheads. By half way through its first term in the Queensland ...

Multi-term periods of party government in Australia have usually come to be associated with the leader that brought the party to office. We often call these periods of government eras. The less common ...

The South Australian redistribution of electoral boundaries has been finalised this morning. The Commission has abandoned a swap of suburbs between Kingston and Mayo, as well as the transfer of an ...

Two weeks ago I published a post highlighting that if Victoria wanted to abolish group voting tickets (GVTs) for the 2026 Legislative Council election, legislation had to be passed at the next sitting ...

The official calculations are the same as the ones in this post except the Territories have slightly higher numbers after adding in Norfolk Island and Jervis Bay to the ACT, and Christmas Island and ...

Tonight and in coming days, this post will publish an overall summary of the results of the 2026 Stafford state by-election in Queensland. The page will be regularly updated on election night and in ...

Fiona Hammond LNP 2768 56.6 +5.5 Luke Richmond ALP 2124 43.4-5.5 ...

Chermside East (1,202)-12.3 +0.7-0.5 +12.1 Chermside South (917)-16.3 +9.0-3.2 +10.5 Chermside West (1,011)-13.3 +6.0-1.3 +8.7 Grange (859)-6.9 +1.7-4.3 +9.5 Kedron (1,334)-11.0 +4.3-3.6 +10.3 Kedron ...