The Tally Room

In the first in a three-party election history series about Optional Preferential Voting called 'Just Vote 1', Ben explores the rise of preferential voting - how it happened, who supported and how political self-interest explains the change. In the next two episodes, Ben will explore...

The first Tally Room live podcast recording will be held on Tuesday December 1 in Melbourne, just days after the Victorian state election. Tickets are now on sale for the public. Spots are limited, so if you'd like to come along please grab your ticket...

I'm excited to announce I will be doing a live recording of the Tally Room podcast on the Tuesday after the Victorian state election, December 1, in Melbourne. The event will be held at the Punter's Club in Fitzroy at 7pm that Tuesday. With One Nation...

The Australian Electoral Commission has officially opened the first round of submissions for the federal redistribution of Queensland. The state will maintain thirty electorates, but the current boundaries, first used at the 2019 federal redistribution, are showing their age and are due for a...

A piece of legislation passed Victoria's upper house last night that seems set to abolish the last use of group voting tickets for public office in Australia. Legislation making changes to local government electoral law in Victoria was amended, apparently with the support of...

9:35 - I'm going to finish up this liveblog here. One Nation has gained this seat with an enormous swing, but there will be some interesting data to examine as far as the relatively weak rate of preferences flowing to One Nation. 9:10...

We're just about three months out from the Victorian election. The list of announced candidates for the election has been growing, and it is quite interesting to look at the field of candidates that we have so far. I have 341 candidates on my list...

With the redistribution of Queensland's state electorates now finalised, I have completed my guide to the 2028 Queensland state election. While this election is still some way off, it should be of interest with the first-term LNP government facing off against a resurgent One Nation...

With the federal redistributions recently finalised for South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory, I have now written election guides for the 18 federal electorates in those three jurisdictions. This means my federal election guide now covers 120 House of Representatives electorates, as well...

The Victorian Labor government has followed through with their plans to introduce legislation to abolish group voting tickets for the Victorian Legislative Council. If this legislation passes this week, it will end the use of this practice at any state or federal election in...