At March’s South Australian election, One Nation polled 22.9% of the vote, relegating the Liberal Party on 18.9% to third place. While a good result for One Nation, it had no impact on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Final figures published to this post and commentary page updated. Tonight and in coming days, this post will publish an overall summary of the results of the 2026 Farrer by-election. The page will be ...

The chart below is an attempt by me chart the party totals through the final stages of the distribution of preferences. At Count 709, only 16 candidates remained in the count, one from each column on ...

Anthony Marsh LIB 128 61.0 +7.9 Tracee Hutchison IND 82 39.0-7.9 ...

The result of the recent South Australian election was clear with Labor the biggest winner, the Liberal Party the biggest loser, and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation the big improver. In the aftermath ...

UPDATE: As outlined inside the post, the distribution of preferences today confirmed that Finniss was won by Independent Lou Nicholson from fourth place. To steal a pun from someone responding to me ...

Count complete – Updated 5:00pm AEST Thursday 2 April March 2026. Quick Summary – All deats declared. Labor has 34 seats, the Liberal Party 5, One Nation 4, Independents 4. Who will be the Opposition ...