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The AEC makes available the full details of everyone's senate ballot (i.e. how they numbered every single column):

• Fed19: See the "formal preferences" section of the 2019 Tally Room Senate Downloads page
• Fed16: See the "formal preferences" section of the 2016 Tally Room Senate Downloads page

Prior to that group ticket voting was in place and hence the same richness of information was not available.

It looks like GeoPandas in combination with contextily can create maps similar to what Google Fusion tables used to produce:
http://geopandas.org/gallery/plotting_basemap_background.html#sphx-glr-gallery-plotting-basemap-background-py

The AEC and TEC use a different format for their csv data files. I should therefore process the raw data files into a consistent format that I can use in all subsequent analysis. I'm thinking two different scripts - aec_to_tasgreens.py and tec_to_tasgreens.csv - that produce two different csv files:

ordinary_votes.csv with the following column headers (i.e. for each polling place):
| PollingPlaceNm | PremisesNm | Latitude | Longitude | LegCo | LocalCouncil | DivisionNm | GreensVotes | TotalVotes | GreensPercentage |

vote_types.csv with the following column headers (i.e. for the statewide and electorate totals and Greens totals):
| OrdinaryVotes | OutOfDivisionVotes | MobileVotes | PostalVotes | PrePollVotes | ProvisionalVotes |

I need to make sure that my overall results match those reported by the AEC:
https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/SenateStateFirstPrefsByGroup-24310-TAS.htm

It seems that in the 2019 federal election data the two Trevallyn booths have been mixed up.

In 2016 (and before that)

PollingPlaceID = 8338
PollingPlaceNm = Riverside West
PremisesNm = Trevallyn Life Church
Greens senate vote = 8%

PollingPlaceID = 8342
PollingPlaceNm = Trevallyn
PremisesNm = Trevallyn Primary School
Greens senate vote = 24%

2019

PollingPlaceID = 8342
PollingPlaceNm = Trevallyn
PremisesNm = Trevallyn Life Church
Greens senate vote = 10%

PollingPlaceID = 8338
PollingPlaceNm = Trevallyn Central
PremisesNm = Trevallyn Primary School
Greens senate vote = 24%