By-election this Saturday in Ikaroa-Rāwhiti

Voters in the New Zealand electorate of Ikaroa-Rāwhiti go to the polls this Saturday to elect their local MP after the death of Labour's Parekura Horomia in April. Ikaroa-Rāwhiti is one of seven Māori electorates in New Zealand. In addition to the 63 "general" electorates, a parallel...

NSW redistribution boundaries – the next day

A substantial amount of analysis was produced yesterday about the draft boundaries for the NSW redistribution. You can look at the maps here. Antony Green has posted his estimated margins for each electorate. He estimates that the ALP has lost two seats net to the Liberal Party....

NSW redistribution – draft boundaries released

The NSW Electoral Commission has released the draft boundaries for the NSW state redistribution this morning. I'm at work today so won't be able to do any in-depth analysis until later. I'm sure Antony Green will post his analysis today, and in the meantime you...

Gender balance in the Parliament: what the data says

Earlier today I posted the full list of candidates compiled in the creation of the Tally Room election guide. You can view it here. The list has already expanded to 473. This data makes it possible to look at the gender balance of candidates running, and what effect...

Open data: the full candidates list

While I have been preparing the Tally Room election guide for the upcoming federal election, I have compiled a list of all candidates who have been announced. Each candidate that comes to my attention has been posted on the page of the relevant electorate, but I've...

Federal election guide now up and running

After a year preparing maps, posting seat profiles and pulling together a large amount of information, the Tally Room guide to the 2013 federal election is now finished and ready for the campaign to start in earnest. Seat profiles have now been posted for all 150...

What a map can show

The seat of Batman in the inner north of Melbourne has been in the news since Martin Ferguson announced his retirement earlier this week. Earlier today I was discussing the geography of Batman: specifically how the Greens do better in the south of the electorate. One...

Yet more parties registering

Earlier in May I wrote a blog post and an article at New Matilda about the surge in parties registering for the upcoming federal election, including speculation about a large number of parties trying to register for the election at the last minute. The Australian Electoral...

An unsurprising landslide

Yesterday's by-election in the NSW state seat of Northern Tablelands saw a result in line with expectations: the Nationals won the seat with a massive swing and a comfortable majority on primary votes. The seat has a history of being held by the Nationals before...

Northern Tablelands 2013 – results live

Results as of 8:33pm Candidate Party Votes % Swing Bill Bush IND 919 2.76 +2.76 Adam Marshall NAT 20,910 62.87 +34.53 Dora Koops GRN 1,461 4.39 +1.11 Herman Beyersdorf ALP 3,205 9.64 +6.24 Katherine Nicholson IND 1,479 4.45 +4.45 Jim Maher IND 4,580 13.77 -49.63 Silvana Nero CDP 706 2.12 +0.54 8:23pm - I'm going to call it a night now, and I'll come back tomorrow with a results summary. 8:21pm - The Nationals vote for each part of the seat is as follows: Armidale - 51.1% Glen...