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candidates.json candidates.csv index.json

Last generated from source data verified 2 Aug 2026. Files rebuild automatically whenever the dataset changes.

Victorian state election 2026

Available data files
File	Contents	Records	Formats
`candidates`	Every candidacy record, with its full status history and sources.	263	JSON CSV
`districts`	All 88 Legislative Assembly districts, their Council region and sitting member.	88	JSON CSV
`council-members`	Sitting members of the Legislative Council, by region, as the seats are held today.	40	JSON CSV
`retirements`	Sitting members who have confirmed they will not recontest.	22	JSON CSV
`parties`	Parties on the VEC register, with any public commitment they have made.	18	JSON
`regions`	The 8 Legislative Council regions.	8	JSON
`representation`	Seats each party holds right now in each house of the current parliament.	—	JSON
`election`	Key dates and jurisdiction metadata, each with a source.	—	JSON
`coverage`	Per-party district coverage, with the counting caveat attached.	—	JSON
`summary`	Headline counts, regenerated on every build.	—	JSON
`polls`	Sourced statewide primary-vote polls (eligible and excluded).	—	JSON CSV
`poll-average`	Weighted primary-vote average with uncertainty bands (not a forecast).	—	JSON
`issues`	Policy issue taxonomy and jurisdiction notes for the comparison matrix.	—	JSON
`coalitions`	Reversible display relationships for combined Coalition matrix columns; registered parties remain separate.	—	JSON
`policies`	Sourced party policy claims by issue (sparse ledger; no ratings).	—	JSON CSV

Using the data

Licence

Data is licensed CC BY 4.0. You may reuse and adapt it, including commercially, provided you attribute it.

Site and tooling code are MIT-licensed.

How to cite

Australian Election Tracker (OZE), Victorian state election 2026 candidate ledger, electiontracker.au, accessed 2 Aug 2026.

Read the caveats first

coverage.json carries a caveat field explaining exactly what the coverage counts do and do not include. Please carry it through into any reuse.

How coverage is counted

Source of truth

These files are build artefacts. The authoritative records are the YAML files in the public repository, where every change has a commit, an author and a date.

Schema notes

Every candidate record carries status (current) and history (every prior status with its own dated source). Read history if you need to know when something changed.
contest is a district slug when chamber is assembly, and a region slug when it is council.
Source objects always carry url, publisher and accessed; title, published and archive_url appear when known.
coalitions.json affects presentation only. Liberal and Nationals remain separate registered parties in parties.json, separate policy records in policies.json, and separate rows in policies.csv.
Dates are ISO YYYY-MM-DD. Slugs are stable identifiers — names are for display.
representation and council-members describe the current parliament (2022–2026), including mid-term replacements and party changes. They are neither a 2022 election result nor a 2026 candidate count — a sitting member is not a candidate until there is a source saying so.