The Tally Room

Two Australian states are in the process of electing their local councils for the next four years. Unfortunately due to the large volume of state elections currently taking place, I won't be able to provide any coverage of these elections, but others have produced...

Since the New Zealand election just over one week ago, you may have noticed the blog go quiet, but I haven't slowed down. I have now posted the first 55 electorate profiles for the upcoming Victorian state election, including twenty-three in the last week. Over the...

I've previously blogged about the overall result - which parties gained and lost seats, and the regional variations in the vote. In this post, I will run through each of the key parties, and examine which parties have come out as winners or losers...

This map shows the main parties' performance on both the electorate and party vote in each general electorate. Read on below for a summary of the election result. After a long and sometimes quirky campaign, the New Zealand election produced a mostly 'status quo' result....

This post was written yesterday about Thursday's Scottish independence referendum. Come back later today for a summary of the New Zealand results. There was a lot of interesting implications revealed by the pattern of results in Thursday's Scottish independence referendum. Firstly, the vote was relatively even across...

Final update for Saturday night Party Votes % Swing Electorate seats List seats Total seats National 1,010,464 48.06 0.75 41 20 61 Labour 519,146 24.69 -2.79 27 5 32 Green 210,764 10.02 -1.04 0 13 13 New Zealand First 186,031 8.85 2.26 0 11 11 Conservative 86,616 4.12 1.47 0 0 0 Māori Party 27,074 1.29 -0.14 1 1 2 Internet Mana 26,539 1.26 0.18 0 0 0 ACT 14,510 0.69 -0.38 1 0 1 United Future 4,533 0.22 -0.38 1 0 1 Others 16,994 0.81 0.21 0 0 0 11:48pm - I'm going to check out now, but I'll be back tomorrow with a general update. I don't think we'll see any more changes in...

Voters are now going to the polls in New Zealand to elect the next Parliament - and therefore their new government - for the next three years. Polls close at 7pm tonight New Zealand time - which is 5pm where I am in Sydney. I...

Results summary - 32 out of 32 councils reporting Votes % Yes 1,617,989 44.68 No 2,001,926 55.28 Total 3,621,107 Turnout 84.49% 3:14pm - With the declaration of the result in Fife, it is now mathematically impossible for Yes to win. There are two more councils - Highlands and Moray - yet to report, but I'm going to...

East Coast Bays is a National Party electorate in the northern suburbs of Auckland. East Coast Bays covers a very conservative area, and on paper the seat is very safe for Foreign Minister Murray McCully, who has sat as a National MP representing the area...

Te Tai Tonga is a Māori electorate covering all of the South Island and most of the Wellington region. The electorate was won by the Māori Party's Rahui Katene in 2008, and won back by Labour's Rino Tirikatene in 2011. Tirikatene holds the seat by an 8.8%...