About OzPollster

Reporting and forecasting for Australian Elections

OzPollster was created by retired IBM IT specialist Howard Houliston, who now does volunteer IT work for the charity Pyrmont Cares and for the Jessie Street National Women's Library as well as doing statistical analysis for the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.

Pic of Howard

OzPollster is intended to make the data provided by the Australian Electoral Commission easier to access and interpret.

Forecast election results are essentially derived by applying swings to each individual polling place and aggregating the results after making allowance for any redistributions.

If you would like to give feedback or report a problem, please use the OzPollster contact form.

The current version of OzPollster is 2.00

Bug fixes, algorithm revisions and other changes are listed below
  • 2022-03-18 Version 1.00 - initial version
  • 2022-03-25 Version 1.01 - larger buttons and drop-downs to improve appearance in iOS Safari
  • 2022-04-15 Version 1.02 - addition of buttons for revision of swings/filtering and for election selection
  • 2023-07-06 Version 2.00 - rework for forcasting results of possible 2025 election