Donation drive

Time for the Poll Bludger’s bi-monthly appeal for donations, for those of you with any spirit of giving left to spare after the demands of the festive season. Donations are gratefully received through the “become a supporter” buttons at the top of the site and the bottom of each blog posts.

Some particular reasons you might think reward is due for my recent efforts:

• A comprehensive Western Australian state election, with the usual charts, maps and written summaries for all 59 seats plus the upper house and a general overview, will be along very shortly – possibly even later today. UPDATE: Here it is.

• It will be followed at some point over the next month by the similar but far grander exercise for the federal election, with its 150 seat profiles and guides for all eight state and territory Senate contests.

• Somewhere in the midst of all this, I hope to relaunch the BludgerTrack poll aggregate to include separate readings for the five mainland states. UPDATE: Here it is.

• There will also be two Victorian state by-elections to deal with in the midst of all this, which will get the usual election guides along with the much-admired Poll Bludger live results features.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.