There’ll be a by-election for the Victorian state seat of Prahran, likely in early 2025, after the resignation of ex-Greens MP Sam Hibbins. Read my guide here https://www.tallyroom.com.au/57423
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@craige making a bit more of an effort to post here and on Bluesky instead of Twitter.
I've added maps showing turnout, informal rate, the primary vote share for the winner and whether an incumbent was re-elected.
Generally turnout was higher south of the Yarra, and informal rates were higher where there was bigger ballots, in the north-west, Bayside and Casey.
Overall incumbents did well, both where they already represented single-member wards and where they were moving from multi-member wards, but a lot more incumbents decided to run again where wards didn't change.
39 of the 310 wards in these councils are yet to distributed their preferences, but in every ward the primary votes are counted.
A lot of these stats seem to revolve around ballot paper size - bigger ballots leads to more informal votes and smaller % for the winner.
Today's blog post sums up a bunch of statistics for the Victorian council elections, for 32 of the biggest councils which use single-member wards (excluding City of Melbourne). I'll be back tomorrow looking at the performance of the parties and results in each council. https://www.tallyroom.com.au/57307
@HardBeingGreen did I specifically Uralla was western or did I just say most councils with uncontested elections are in the west? Because yes individually it's in New England, but it is west of the great dividing range.
A by-election will be held later this year for Pittwater after the sudden and scandalous resignation of Rory Amon, possibly on October 19 alongside the Epping and Hornsby by-elections. I've now prepared my guide for this by-election.
@damonism hah yes I did like that. Tom had to record outside, although we did stop at one point for a particularly noisy car. And there were some planes when I was speaking.
@engagedpractx fair enough.