Tag archives: election simulation
The 2012 State of Play
Possum Comitatus February 9, 2012 49 Comments
Australian federal polling trends and election simulations
Wipeout
Possum Comitatus September 28, 2011 35 Comments
Australian federal election simulations and polling trends
Pollytrend, Election Sims and Labor’s worst month in government
Possum Comitatus July 2, 2011 24 Comments
Being the end of June, it’s time to crank up the stats and run our quarterly election simulations based on polling aggregates of the last 3 months from all the pollsters that provide state level breakdowns. However, before we do, it’s worth updating our Pollytrend measures as the month of June turned out to be […]
First Election Simulation for 2011
Possum Comitatus April 1, 2011 21 Comments
With the Newspoll quarterly release this week, we now have enough data to aggregate the pollsters together, break the aggregated sample down into state based components and run our first election simulation for 2011. Before we start though, it’s worth running though an updated Pollytrend to show how the polls have moved over the January […]
New Election Simulation.
Possum Comitatus August 18, 2010 43 Comments
With today’s combined two week Newspoll breakdown released over at The Oz, we can aggregate the results with the last two Nielsens and the JWS Godzilla poll to run some simulations. Ordinarily we make a pooled super sample of all the polls, weighted by sample size, to get aggregate state results from which to crunch […]
First campaign election simulation
Possum Comitatus August 4, 2010 39 Comments
With the Newspoll release today of a slightly smaller than usual demographic breakdown (n=3437 rather than the usual n=5500+), we can combine them up with the last 2 Nielsen polls and run them through our election simulation – representing the broad period of July 22nd through to August 2nd, with a pooled sample of n=6193. […]
Nerdy Sunday – Betting Markets Edition
Possum Comitatus July 11, 2010 4 Comments
This week we saw three betting agencies open up individual seat markets for the federal election. We looked at one of those on Friday (Betfair), so today we’ll take a squiz at the other two – Sportsbet and Sportingbet. These two agencies have, between them, opened markets for 47 separate seats – where 32 of […]
The Post Spill Polling Roundup
Possum Comitatus June 29, 2010 34 Comments
Since our last roundup, we’ve had another Galaxy, a Newspoll and an Essential Report come into the field. The Galaxy was taken on June 25, 1 day after their first poll and showing identical results for the major parties, and a 1 point gain to the Greens at the expense of a 1 point drop […]
The electoral reality of Rudd’s last days.
Possum Comitatus June 28, 2010 37 Comments
Hidden among the events of Thursday’s spill was Newspoll’s quarterly release of their polling demographic breakdowns between April and June in The Oz. In what can only be described as very convenient timing, this allows us to pool these Newspoll results with the Nieslen results over the same period (plus one unpublished phone poll I […]
Election Simulation – Quarter 1 2010
Possum Comitatus April 9, 2010 9 Comments
With Newspoll having released its quarterly polling breakdowns, we can now combine them with the Nielsen data for the last three months and run our election simulation – giving us the most likely result were an election held over the Jan-Mar period and the results matched the polling. While the headline results showed a sharp […]