Swings, preferences, landslides and everything else that was wrong with the election

Four charts that show why Liberals are struggling to win elections

A “first past the post” electoral system would have delivered the Coalition an extra 13 seats, analysis by The Australian Financial Review shows.

Swings, preferences, landslides and everything else that was wrong with the election

Explore how Australia's 2025 election was influenced by preferential voting, causing significant shifts in party seats despite modest vote swings.

The ever-complexifying House count

In 2022 I wrote a blog post where I explained the phenomenon of the AEC needing to do more distribution of preferences before declaring election results, and thus needing longer to complete this process. We now have updated information for 2025, and can see that this process has become even more complex this year. When you look at how this has changed over two decades, it is a remarkable transformation. The AEC is required to officially declare …

Media Roundup: Social platforms anti-abuse tech fail

Election 2025 Why the Coalition’s social media blitz bombed Six years after helping Brexit over the line, Kiwi agency Topham Guerin was back in the game, this time hired by the Liberals to turbocharge their social media. But as Joseph Carbone reports in The Australian, what worked for Boris flopped in Brisbane, with Peter Dutton not only losing the election, but also his own seat. While both major parties flooded platforms in a bid to court youn…