Federal elections - Armarium Interreta

How Close Was the 2022 Australian Federal Election?

A recent comment heard in person about the closeness of the 2022 Australian federal election made me want to try my hand at analysing how close it was, in a historical context.

How would optional preferential voting have affected federal elections?

One of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters’ (JSCEM) recommendations following the 2019 Australian federal election was the introduction of Optional Preferential Voting (OPV). Here, we model how the introduction of OPV would have affected the outcomes of recent federal elections.