Election guides by ABC election analyst Antony Green, results, statistics, news and more.
Election guides by ABC election analyst Antony Green, results, statistics, news and more.
New South Wales Liberal Premier Mike Baird leads his government into the 2015 election with an enormous majority in Parliament, well ahead in Preferred Premier ratings, but with a narrowing lead over Labor in polls of voting intention.
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| Updated14 March: Voters in the Victorian seat of Gippsland South will go to the polls following the retirement of former Nationals Leader and Deputy Premier Peter Ryan.
31st January: In an attempt to preserve his record majority, Premier Campbell Newman has called a snap Queensland election for 31 January, the nation's first January election in more than a century.
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31 January: Voters in the Adelaide state seat of Daveport will go to the polls on 31 January following the resignation of Liberal MP Iain Evans
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| Updated6 December: Voters in the Adelaide state seat of Fisher will go to the polls on 6 December following the death of Independent MP Bob Such.
29 November: After the Coalition’s unexpected victory in November 2010, the Napthine government goes into November’s Victorian state election as underdog. Labor Leader Daniel Andrews will be hoping to return Labor to office after just one term of opposition.
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| Updated25 October 2014: The revelation to an ICAC inquiry of illegal developer donations at the 2011 state election has led to the resignation of the Liberal members for Charlestown and Newcastle. With both seats having been safe Labor seats until the 2011 election landslide, Labor is favourite to gain both seats ahead of the state election in March.
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| Updated18 October 2014: Voters in the Western Australian seat of Vasse, centred on Busselton in the state's south-west, will go to the polls following the resignation of MP Troy Buswell. A former Liberal Leader, state Treasurer and Transport Minister, Buswell departs after what can be described as an eventful political career.
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| Updated18 October 2014: Voters in the northern Darwin seat of Casuarina will go to the polls on 18 October following the resignation of Labor MP Kon Vatskalis. It will be the third by-election since the Country Liberals returned to government in August 2012.
18 September: Scotland is voting on whether to leave the United Kingdom and become an independent country. Find background on the referendum and follow the count through the day on Friday 19 September.
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| Updated19 July: The Newman government faces a difficult by-election test in the inner-northern Brisbane seat of Stafford following the resignation of LNP member Dr Chris Davis.
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| Updated3 May: Voters in the Tasmanian Legislative Council seats of Huon and Rosevears go back to the polls on 3 May in the state's annual upper house elections. After winning March's state election, the Liberal Party have nominated candidates for both seats.
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| Updated12th April: Voters in the Palmerston seat of Blain go back to the polls soon after the resignation of former Chief Minister Terry Mills.
5th April: Western Australian voters go to the polls on Saturday 5 April to elect six Senators to represent the state. The election is being held after the Court of Disputed Returns overturned last September's election result.
15th March: The last of Labor's mainland state governments goes to the polls on 15 March with the government of Premier Jay Weatherill facing an uphill task to hold office.
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15th March: Australia's longest serving state government faces defeat as Tasmania goes to the polls on Saturday 15 March.
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| Updated22 February: Voters in the Queensland state seat of Redcliffe will go to the polls in early 2014 following the resignation of disgraced former MP Scott Driscoll.
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| Updated8 February: The resignation of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will see the voters of his inner Brisbane seat of Griffith go to the polls early in the new year.
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| Updated19 October: Voters in the southern Sydney seat of Miranda go back to the polls on 19 October following the resignation of local MP Graham Annesley.
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| Updated17 October: The boundaries on which the 2014 Victorian election will be fought have now been finalised. Click here for political analysis of the boundary changes.
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| Updated18 September: The boundaries on which the 2015 New South Wales election will be fought have now been finalised. Click here for analysis of the political impact of the new boundaries.
7 September: ABC coverage of Australia's 2013 Federal Election. Antony Green's Election Guide, party policies, news, analysis, opinion, statistics, interactive calculators and more.
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| Updated25 May: Having been dropped as National Party candidate for the Federal seat of New England, Richard Torbay has now resigned his seat in the NSW parliament, creating a by-election for his rural seat of Northern Tablelands.
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| Updated4 May: Voters in the Tasmanian Legislative Council divisions of Montgomery, Nelson and Pembroke go to the polls on Saturday 4 May.
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| Updated27 April: Voters in the south-east Melbourne seat of Lyndhurst face a state by-election on 27 April following the resignation of Labor MP Tim Holding.