By-elections sometimes reflect important political trends, and sometimes they don’t. So why are we watching Canning so closely? It was Saturday 26 March 1988, and Coalition supporters were cock-a-hoop. Just a week earlier twelve years of NSW Labor government had been swept away, big time, and now the federal electorate of Port Adelaide had swung...

Nick Xenophon is breathing down the Coalition’s neck in his home state. In a tight federal election, the implications could be significant, writes Clem Macintyre.

Introduction In this paper, election analyst Antony Green provides detailed two-party and two-candidate preferred results by polling place for the 2015 New South Wales election. The publication is the latest in a series first published by the NSW Parliamentary Research Service after the 1991 election and is a companion to "2015 New South Wales Election...

In this paper, Antony Green provides an analysis of the results of the 2015 New South Wales election. Presented are summaries of the elections for both Houses, analysis of Legislative Assembly results both before and after the distribution of preferences, as well as a summary of the Legislative Council election.

Once the natural party of government, the Liberal Party has been performing badly across Australia for thirty years or more. Mike Baird has shown the party a way out Mike Baird’s victory in Saturday’s NSW election is far more unusual than it looks. And if Baird as premier continues as he has begun, he could...