Convenience Voting

2020 Queensland Election – Tracking the Early Vote

In this post I will keep track of the Queensland election postal and pre-poll vote totals.

Pre-poll Update to Saturday 24 October – being the weekend official numbers have not been released. The ECQ tweeted that 67,000 had voted by 5pm on Saturday taking the pre-poll total to just short of 670,000 or 19.8% of enrolled voters.

On Friday total of postals plus pre-polls had reached around 1.5 million or 44.4% of enrolled voters.

A total of 898,062 postal vote packs have been dispatched, a total that represents 26.6% of enrolment. This figure has been adjusted up by about 6,000 since Monday. Registration for postal votes has now closed. Not all postal votes are completed and returned. Read More »2020 Queensland Election – Tracking the Early Vote

Early Voting at Queensland Elections and its Political Impact

As a Covid-19 measure, the Electoral Commission Queensland (ECQ) is encouraging electors to vote early in 2020. This means the Queensland election will see a record rate of votes cast before the traditional polling day on 31 October.

While the overall early voting rates will be exaggerated by the circumstances of holding an election under Covid-19 precautions, the switch to early voting continues a trend that has been accelerating over the last decade.

This post looks at Queensland elections since 1986, how and when people have voted, as well as the differing levels of party support by vote type at the 2017 state election.Read More »Early Voting at Queensland Elections and its Political Impact