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Mappers of #democracysausage locations. It's practically part of the Australian Constitution. Or amending the constitution. Something like that. https://democracysausage.org

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · Jul 19

Thanks to all of our sausage tipsters, and a cheer for the Tasmanian volunteers braving today's weather to fundraise. As polls close we've got a sausage status for 36% of booths - a State record! #democracysausage

Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · Jul 19

As usual, we’re covering the election from Perth, and are nearing the part of the afternoon where someone cracks under the pressure and pops down to the shops…

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · Jul 19

We shorten it to ‘demsausage’ around Democracy Sausage HQ but Moccy Sossy is much more Australian for sure.

Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · Jul 18

Happy Election Day, Tasmania! Polls are now open. Don’t forget to support your local community fundraisers (and remember, you can get a sausage even if you’ve already voted!) #TasVotes #DemocracySausage

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · Jul 18

Happy election eve, Tasmania!

We've got info on what's on offer at 21% of polling places, but a lot of mysteries to solve.

If you're at a booth that still has a grey question mark on our map, click on it to send a tip-off. Let us know what you spot: bbq, cake stall, or even nothing at all!

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · Jul 17

We salute the snag sizzlers, cake bakers and other fundraisers of Tasmania - who’ve had an occasion to setup every year since 2018, except 2020 😳 #auspol

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · Jul 16

Tasmania! It’s ON! democracysausage.org/media/2025-T... #auspol #tasvotes

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · Jul 1

Scotsman Iain visited Perth during the last federal election and took some photos of the wonderful folk of Lathlain!

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Gallery: DEMOCRACY SAUSAGE 2025 on Iain McLean Photography

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · Jul 1

The land of cake sales and democracy sausage has an election coming up on July 19! Unlike so many children’s book illustrators, we won’t forget you Tasmania! We are waiting for the list of polling places to be published before we activate the map on our page. Watch this space! 👀

Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · May 3

But lastly, everyone who volunteered to run sizzles, cake stalls and helped crowd ‘sauce’ our data. Thanks also to the many people who bought sausages, cakes or other election goods to support their local community. Thank you! Team #democracysausage signing out until the next election 🫡

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · May 3

First of all, thanks to our event partners the AEC (without which we wouldn’t have key location data or the polling places to host #DemocracySausages). Thanks also to media agencies who helped get the word out and to our team who not only built a fantastic new site but kept the data uploads going.

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · May 3

And so the 2025 Federal Election democracy sausage coverage comes to a close! Various records smashed, many sausages eaten but none of it possible without contributions from a range of people. Pictured is our tired but happy democracy sausage team.

Four people sit at a table, computers in front of them. They are all looking tired.

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · May 3

And finally, to wrap up the numbers, between the four Democracy Sausage team members at HQ we have eaten 7 Democracy Sausages, 1 Democracy bacon and egg roll, and 9 Democracy Cakes* *(includes honey joys).

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · May 3

Compared to 2022, there has been a nationwide swing to #DemocracySausage, with an increase of 5.2 percentage points in the estimated percentage of election day voters with access to #DemocracySausage. The largest swing was in NSW with a 10.5 percentage point increase.

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · May 3

Once adjusted for the estimated percentage of election day voters, ACT was the leading state/territory, with 86.5% of voters able to access a #DemocracySausage, compared to 48.6% nationwide.

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · May 3

Australia-wide, there were 2,659 sites with #DemocracySausage and 1,536 with #DemocracyCake available. As expected, the more populous states had a higher count of sausage and cake.

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · May 3

Nationwide, we’ve had information about 3,622 polling places, representing 64.8% of today’s estimated voters (This includes sites where we heard no noms were available.)

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · May 3

We also appreciate our site users! In the last 24 hours, we’ve had 2 MILLION visitors to our site, with a peak of 61,830 simultaneous users at 8pm AEST yesterday evening. Today’s peak was 55,200 users at 9:15am AEST.

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · May 3

First of all, thank you all so much for sharing your sausage intel with us. Over the course of this election, we received 3,603 submissions (1,418 from stall owners and 2,185 tip-offs), which we used to populate site information - with a few more still trickling in.

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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · May 3

With polls coming to a close in the east, most #DemocracySausage stalls will have wrapped up for the day, so it’s time to do our Democracy Sausage count before the counting of votes begins!