The Tally Room

There's a lot of stories touting a supposed narrow victory for Tzipi Livni's Kadima in today's Israeli election, but this reflects a first-past-the-post mentality with little value in Israel's ultra-multi-party system. Rather than Livni coming out on top, it seems very likely that Benjamin...

So Israelis are now voting for their new Knesset. Polls close at 7am AEDT, and I hope to post an early results update at 9am followed by more detailed results at lunchtime. It appears that the gap between Netanyahu's Likud and Livni's Kadima has...

So the UK will see a general election either this year or next year, and the election will see a new set of boundaries being used in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, while Scotland last had a redistribution before the 2005 election. I've started...

100th post! The Australian Electoral Commission has finalised the new electoral boundaries for the next federal election. You can download the Google Earth map here. The map includes the 2007 boundaries as well as the new boundaries. We have also seen a redistribution in the...

In today's Sydney Morning Herald, the surprisingly-large "upcoming elections in large Asian countries whose name begins with an I" has a couple of articles of interest for election junkies. In Indonesia, the Herald has reported that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is staring down a shadowy...

Former Liberal leader John Hewson penned a piece in today's Crikey speculating at the possibility of an early federal election later this year. He points out, reasonably enough, that the economic crisis will likely hit harder in 2010 and that the Emissions Trading Scheme...

Being a Greens member, I'm gonna refrain from commenting on this story, so I'll just quote from this AAP story: Greens MP Lee Rhiannon has told her party she will stand down from the NSW upper house ahead of the next federal election in a...

Guest post from Ofir Thaler: In predicting the winners in Israeli elections, especially in the last 15 years, it is nowhere near enough to just look at the top of the list of parties and see how the large parties are faring against each other....

Only days ago, Jack Layton's NDP remained in a technical coalition with Michael Ignatieff's Liberals in Canada. Yet after the coalition was dissolved by Ignatieff supporting the Conservative budget, Layton has lashed out at the Liberals in a new round of radio ads: “Some things...

So Canada's conservative government has brought down a budget, eight weeks after Parliament was prorogued to prevent a new Liberal-NDP coalition government being formed. The NDP and the Bloc have clearly stated that they will vote against the budget, and have been joined by the...