Anthony Zougras

Came here to say the exact same thing.

We see this phenomenon online a lot, from politics to reviewing books (you like this book therefore you endorse a nasty character's behaviour), but it has cropped up in academia as long as I've been in it, i.e. some people, inc some academics, assume that if you study a thing, you like/endorse it

- Ex-Fusion candidate Imelda Adamson Agars is contesting Chaffey as part of The Nationals (very weird switch)

A few 'fun' facts:

- Failed PHON candidate and mother of Sarah Game, Jennifer Game, is making an electoral return for Fair Go in the seat of Black

- The Australian Family Party had 5 candidates with the same last name, Attard.

Raw data:

47 ALP + 7 LC
47 GRN + 3 LC
47 LIB + 5 LC
47 PHON + 4 LC
47 AFP + 3 LC
35 FF + 2 LC
33 IND + 5 LC
22 FG + 2 LC
17 LC + 2 LC
16 AJP + 2 LC
14 UVA + 2 LC
12 RC + 2 LC
3 NAT + 2 LC
1 SAB + 5 LC
0 JL + 2 LC

Least Candidates: Bragg (5)
Most Candidates: Hammond + Port Adelaide (12)

A spreadsheet containing every candidate at the South Australian state election (in the lower house) and their ballot order, colour coded by party

A spreadsheet showing every candidate at the state election (in the upper house) and their ballot order, colour coded by party

I've gone through the ECSA's official candidate list and have written up a spreadsheet showing every candidate at this SA state election and their ballot order. I need to go through and research them all, but hopefully this is useful!

#saparli #auspol

Will do, the plan is to do my final 'list' update when the ECSA list is out, knowing that there's a bunch of candidates who will lack details until the party's themselves release more information about them within the next couple weeks.

Today's the day! Nominations are closed and candidates are officially about to be announced by the ECSA. I've already done like 40 new candidates today, and ik I can expect over 60 more to come out, so I'll be quite busy soon....

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A headline from The Advertiser which states "Back for another crack" Speirs noses into electoral race".

Ex-Leader of the SA Liberal Party, David Speirs, has confirmed that he's running for the seat of Black at the upcoming election. Speirs is a convicted drug supplier and had claimed video evidence of him using cocaine was AI.

Also, the Advertiser may have hit a banger of a title...

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My official and formal reaction: aaaaaahahahahahaha

Nice to know so many of the worst people are now having a bad day coping and seething

REMOVED

- Sarita Stratton | One Nation (Heysen)
- Thea Hennessey | Liberals (LegCo)

MOVED

- Angela Rojas | Fair Go (LegCo -> Elizabeth)
- KD Singh | Liberals (5th LegCo -> 4th)
- Belinda Crawford-Marshall (6th LegCo -> 5th)

Independents

- Rod Keogh (Flinders)
- Frances Bedford (Florey)
- Faith Coleman (LegCo)

- Sarika Sharma (West Torrens)

One Nation

- Russell Paterson (Bragg)
- Tomislav Kovac (Heysen)
- Aaron Von Frattner (Waite)

Greens

- Ruby Dolling (Croydon)
- Katheryn Hardwick-Franco (Flinders)
- Sharon Holmes (Mount Gambier)
- Bev Morris (Schubert)
- Xander Osborne (Taylor)

ADDED

Liberals

- Rhees Bishop (Black)
- Helen Pike (Cheltenham)
- Oscar Ong (Enfield)
- Dawid Jurczak (Elizabeth)
- Charlotte Grundy (Hurtle Vale)
- Shane Carter (Kaurna)
- Andrew Williamson (Light)
- Christopher Jones (Playford)
- Daryl McCann (Ramsay)
- Ted Boul Hosn (Taylor)

The 2026 SA State Election Candidates Tracker Hello all! This is yet another tracker I have decided to put up to engage with SA's 2026 election. This one will look to track the candidate...

New Candidate Tracker update! 22 new candidates have been added, with 2 removed and a couple moved around. With this update, the Liberal party becomes the 2nd party to have announced candidates for every seat.

anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

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Upcoming Global Elections This series did surprisingly good numbers, so it shan’t face the chop.

What elections are upcoming in March/April around the world?
open.substack.com/pub/politics...

Teaching my first tutorials ever this week, got first years in a big old survey course. Excited but also quite anxious. I've worked with high schoolers before, but has anyone got advice for making history tutorials engaging?

#history 🗃️ #skystorians

#EMRS Tas (state) Lib 29 ALP 23 Grn 15 IND 15 ON 14 others 4.

ON is not registered yet but close to being registered.

Will be interesting doing the seat estimate for this one ... give me a little time! #politas

Excited to see this as someone who only gets to use part of the rail network

the current official Adelaide Metro rail network map, showing all of Adelaide's train stations and tram stops.

This project will document one man’s quest to find, and photograph, all of Adelaide’s 89 railway stations. (1/5)

There's the legendary @sydneystations.bsky.social and now @every-adl-station.bsky.social. For some time I've been pondering doing #EveryPerthStation just to prompt me to see more of the network and this city I have lived in for four years (already that many?!). Feel like I really ought to do it

I see Rennick nearly got the Carlos Quaremba treatment, where the fake control politician is 'as well-known' as him. Hilarious stuff from F&H

#FoxHedgehog ALP 30 L-NP 24 ON 25 Green 12 Ind/other 9

2PP (respondent prefs) 51 to ALP. My last-election estimate for these primaries 52.0 to ALP (-0.8)

ALP vs ON 53 to ALP
My last election estimate 52.6 (-2.2)

drive.google.com/file/d/1HH88...

Yep, that would be the most likely scenario for their upper house prospects at this moment. It is likely that there will be more independents in the lower house than Liberal MPs.

Without doing any modelling, it's hard to see the Libs keeping more than 2 of their seats up for re-election. The current numbers should be enough for them to fight for a 2nd seat, but a continued decline could very well see them in the same positions as the Greens, aka close but unlikely to get 2.

A news story clipping which reads: Liberal strategists are hoping Ms Hurn - well regarded as opposition health spokeswoman for prosecuting Labor's broken ambulance-ramping promise - will benefit from a sympathy vote at being handed the job so close to polling day.

The Liberal party's strategy apparently rests upon... (checks notes)... the general public pitying them. That's the best the SA Libs have got. And mind you their wounds are self-inflicted, they've shot themselves in the foot and are going "oh won't anyone think of poor little old us".

#saparli

Not one but two SA state polls today, here's #YouGov

ALP 37 Lib 20 ON 22 Green 13 IND/other 8

ALP vs Lib 59-41
ALP vs ON 60-40

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Yep, and I suspect there's abit of a polling mirage going on, though I guess we will see. I am almost certain that last LC seat will have some fierce fighting between PHON, the Greens, SA-Best, Legalise Cannabis, and Real Change SA, who are all polling in the area to get that seat.

it's a double poll night in South Australia. YouGov is reporting figures that are still diabolical for the Liberals (and great for One Nation), but less diabolical than Newspoll:

Labor 37%
One Nation 22%
Liberal 20%
Greens 13%
Others 8%

www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-a...

Doubt this will translate to One Nation lower house seats, Labor's swing will be far too strong, but this will almost certainly confirm 2 PHON seats in the upper house (if the polling is true) and with Liberal polling that low, there might be room for Independents/Minor Parties to sneak in

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