Fruits and Votes

The preliminary result in New Zealand is surprising, perhaps even shocking, in some respects. These results show a record 11 overhang seats, each of which means a seat added to parliament such that the size will be 131 seats rather than the baseline 120. An overhang happens when a party wins a nominal-tier seat (“electorate” by New Zealand terminology) that is beyond the numb...

Today Israel’s new Knesset was installed, following the 27 October election. It is

There really are a lot of elections in these past few weeks, and in the near future, aren’t there? I almost forgot about this one. Okay, not really. I have next to nothing to say about it, other than I have never felt so uneasy about an election likely to won by the party I nominally prefer (if purely by default). But in case folks want to talk about results or anything else ...

New Zealand holds its general election this Saturday, 7 November. It looks to be an interesting one, for at least three reasons that have caught my attention. First, a new party may enter the ranks of seat-winners. The Opportunities Party has been scoring fairly consistently over the 5% party-list threshold in most polls. The party has run before, but no won seats. Second (an...

I want to offer a shout-out here to a couple of data visualization apps on line regarding Israeli politics. Both are the efforts of Jacob Weinbren.

One is a mapping of Israeli election results, where you can zoom right down to neighborhood level and see the votes by party. It covers...