Cheers to all those who worked the BBQ tongs today, and to everyone who sent in a tip-off!
We're wrapping up #SAvotes2026 here at Democracy Sausage HQ with info about 47% of booths - including a huge 241 booths with a sausage sizzle or cake stall.
#democracysausage #SAvotes2026
Cripes !That's a whole lot of tasty democracy. We recommend a good lie down and a cup of tea or two 😄
Hands down the best election day tradition ever! As a Canadian I am extremely jealous. We need a Canadian equivalent at our election polls immediately. Encourage people to vote, support local charities and causes, and get some food hole you wait or for after you vote.
Make Democracy Tasty!
Polls are open, South Australia!
Remember: you can only vote once, but you can legally visit every sausage sizzle and cake stall in the State.
Good luck to all the volunteers raising funds for their communities today. 💜
#democracysausage #SAvotes2026
Happy election eve, South Australia! We know what's on offer at nearly 1/3 of polling places, but that still leaves many mysteries to solve.
If you visit a booth with a grey '?' on the democracysausage.org map, click on it to send a tip-off. Does it have bbq, cake, or nothing at all?
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
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…
We shorten it to ‘demsausage’ around Democracy Sausage HQ but Moccy Sossy is much more Australian for sure.
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
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!
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
Scotsman Iain visited Perth during the last federal election and took some photos of the wonderful folk of Lathlain!
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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! 👀
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 🫡
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.
Four people sit at a table, computers in front of them. They are all looking tired.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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!
Overheard at #DemocracySausage HQ: "So much mustard in my beard"
We aren't so specific as vegan but we do list "savoury vegetarian" as a specific filter option.
Democracy Sausage is entirely unpaid and unsponsored... but we do occasionally get fun things in the mail.
100% endorse the BOTH before and after approach!
Picture of sausage with sauce in a white bread slice
Cute white dog, campaigning outside with a sign to vote for Sue
#democracysausage ✔️
#dogsoftheelection ✔️
Voted ✔️