The Tally Room

Each group running in the WA Senate by-election submitted their group voting tickets on Saturday, which will direct preferences for above-the-line votes cast for each group. With the state elections in South Australia and Tasmania, I've only now had time to analyse the preferences...

There are six seats that sit on margins of less than 2% at the current point in the counting, I will run through each of these electorates and summarise the situation. In short, the results suggest that it is not possible in five of these...

At the end of the night, the election result in South Australia is extremely close, and we don't know who will be forming government. At the moment, the ABC has called the result in 46 out of 47 electorates, and these seats break down along...

Tasmanian voters elected a Liberal government tonight, but a number of seats are still up for grabs. In four out of five electorates, the Liberal Party has gained a third seat. In two additional electorates, another seat is yet to be decided. In some other...

11:17pm - I'm going to leave the results there for the night. A wrap-up of the South Australian results will be up shortly, including some analysis of the key races and the Legislative Council, where it appears that the three incumbent crossbench MLCs have...

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced on Monday that the next New Zealand election will be held on September 20. I'll be providing a full guide to the election, but won't be able to start until the new electoral boundaries are finalised in April. In...

Nominations were declared this afternoon for the Senate by-election in Western Australia. 77 candidates have nominated, an increase from 62 who ran in last September's election. These candidates are running in 33 groups, as well as two ungrouped independents. All but one of the groups is...

Nominations will be announced later today for the remarkable Senate by-election in Western Australia, due to be held on April 5. With final nominations being announced today, candidates and parties will have until midday tomorrow (WA time) to lodge their group voting ticket, which will...

South Australia and Tasmania goes to the polls for their state elections on Saturday. I'll be covering the results from 6:30pm AEDT. This is your opportunity to post your predictions for the election results. You can also read more about each electorate, and join each electorate's discussion...

Over the last week, nominations closed for the South Australian and Tasmanian state elections: South Australia on Monday and Tasmania on Thursday. This is a follow-up to Monday's post when I analysed the list of candidates I had collected at that time. Candidates for all electorates...