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State forecasts are real. Federal seats are sample data.More

MPs, voting records, bills, funding, dates and party positions are real. State and territory seats show Ostrakon’s real election forecasts: Victoria (published 2 November 2026), NSW and the ACT (3 November 2026; the ACT has no polls yet, so it starts from the 2024 result). Federal seat numbers are still made up, and headlines and images are samples in every seat. Sources, licences and privacy. The federal and ACT maps use older boundaries.

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Colour = who Ostrakon expects to win. Paler = closer race (safe → toss-up). Pinch, scroll or use + and − to zoom; drag to move.

About the boundaries

Official Australian Bureau of Statistics boundaries (ASGS Edition 3, 2025 release, CC BY 4.0), simplified for the map but matched at full detail for suburbs and postcodes. Federal seats use the boundaries from the 2025 election (NSW has 46 seats, Victoria 38, the ACT 3). State and territory seats use the boundaries in force now: NSW from the 2023 election, Victoria from the 2022 election and the ACT from the 2024 election. Suburbs and postcodes that straddle a boundary list every seat holding at least 15% of them.

About Ostrakon

Politics, without the spin.

Ostrakon puts everything you need to judge your representatives in one place: who’s likely to win your seat, what each party says it will do, how your MP actually votes, the laws they’ve put forward and who pays for their campaigns. All on one map, all sourced, none of it filtered through anyone’s agenda.

Our mission

To give every voter the same view of power that insiders have: clear, checkable and free of spin, so people can decide for themselves.

Why “Ostrakon”?

In ancient Athens, citizens could vote to banish a politician who had grown too powerful. Each voter scratched a name onto a broken piece of pottery, an ostrakon. It is where the word “ostracism” comes from, and one of the oldest examples of ordinary people holding power to account.

Our logo is the urn Athenians dropped their votes into, cracked open. The crack is a tick, the mark you make on a ballot: the vote is what breaks a closed system open, and what fixes it. Its colours are those of Athenian pottery, black glaze and terracotta clay.

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No side taken

We don’t endorse parties or candidates. Every party is measured the same way, against scales written down before anyone is placed on them.

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Show the receipts

Every figure links to where it came from: parliaments, electoral commissions and the parties’ own words. If you can’t check it, we don’t publish it.

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Records over rhetoric

What politicians do counts more than what they say: how they vote, what laws they introduce, who funds them.

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Local first, then the world

Politics happens in your street before it happens in parliament. We start with your seat, and we’re building Ostrakon to cover every country.

Where we are now

Ostrakon is an early version covering New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria, at federal, state and territory level. MPs, voting records, bills, party funding and party positions are real and sourced. Real forecasts are live for the Victorian election on 28 November 2026, the NSW election on 13 March 2027 and the ACT election in October 2028, published in advance so they can be checked against the results. Federal seat numbers are still sample data, and headlines and images are samples everywhere.

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Sources and licences

Every figure on Ostrakon comes from a public source, and pages link to the one they use. The main ones:

Wikipedia: opinion polls, member lists, candidate lists, past election results and seat histories, each linked from where it is used. Wikipedia’s text and data are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0; the tables Ostrakon builds from them are shared under the same licence.
Australian Bureau of Statistics: electoral boundaries, suburbs and postcodes (Australian Statistical Geography Standard). © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Australian Electoral Commission: party and campaign-group funding disclosures (Transparency Register) and federal results, used under the AEC’s copyright terms.
State and territory electoral commissions (Victorian Electoral Commission, NSW Electoral Commission, Elections ACT): election results and candidate lists, mostly as summarised on Wikipedia.
Parliaments: voting records and bills from the Parliament of Australia, NSW Parliament (Hansard), the Parliament of Victoria (Hansard), the ACT Legislation Register and legislation.vic.gov.au, linked from each MP’s record.
They Vote For You (OpenAustralia Foundation): federal voting records, used under its terms.
Fonts: Archivo, via Google Fonts, under the SIL Open Font Licence.

Terms

Forecasts are estimates based on published polls and past results. They are not certainties, and nothing on Ostrakon is betting, financial or voting advice.
Ostrakon is independent. It is not affiliated with, funded by or endorsed by any party, candidate, government or electoral commission.
We work to keep every fact accurate and sourced, and we correct mistakes when we find them. Each forecast version stays on the record so it can be checked against the result.

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