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Hobart, Australia · HobartThere has been a clear trend in all Australian elections over the last twenty years of voters moving away from voting on election day, with an increasing number of voters choosing pre-poll voting as an alternative. Tasmania has lagged behind the rest of the country in moving away from ordinary election-day voting, both at state elections and federal elections, but there was a big drop between last year’s election and this year’s election. Now th…Read Article
Tasmanians move further away from election day voting
Hobart, Australia · HobartNow that we have the final booth results for the Tasmanian state election, I’ve decided to add another chapter to a series of blog posts analysing the geographic trends of individual candidates within each party within each electorate. You can read my blog posts about the 2021 election and the 2024 election here. I’ve also done similar analyses for ACT elections. There is no official party ticket in Hare-Clark elections – there is a ticket of ca…Read Article
Mapping intra-party booth results at Tasmania 2025
Hobart, Australia · HobartCasting a formal vote in a Tasmanian lower house election isn’t the easiest vote to cast, but in some ways it’s easier than it would be in other places. Voters are required to number at least as many boxes as there are vacancies – that means that the required number of preferences increased from 5 in 2021 to 7 in 2024 – despite an attempt by Kevin Bonham to allow for savings provisions that would minimise informal rates. That shift caused an uns…Read Article
