NSW federal redistribution – final margins

The Australian Electoral Commission today published the maps and data for the final boundaries for New South Wales for next year's federal election, which makes it possible to calculate final margins and show maps of the new boundaries. After the fold, the map shows the...

Queensland candidates announced

Nominations closed today for the Queensland state election, with the full list of candidates now announced. I have compiled my spreadsheet and am still working on collecting links for all the candidates and plan to have the final candidate lists up by tomorrow morning. Overall there...

Black by-election triggered in South Australia

Former Liberal leader David Speirs resigned from parliament today, after his house was raised by police in relation to a video published last month, not long after his resignation from the leadership. I have now published my guide for the Black by-election, which I expect...

Podcast #131: Catching up on Queensland

Ben is joined by Dennis Atkins to preview the upcoming Queensland state election. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. You can listen to an ad-free version of this podcast if you...

ACT candidates updated

This is a very quick blog post as I am catching up on stuff that has been happening while moving house. On the very day that I moved house, nominations were announced for the ACT election. I won't be doing a lot on this specific...

NSW councils – declaration of results post

4:00pm Tuesday - We are now approaching the end of the declaration process. In Ryde, the third Liberal won the final seat in Ryde West, giving the Liberals a total of eight seats against three Labor, one Greens and Roy Maggio. A very solid result...

WA federal redistribution – final margins

The maps and data for the final WA federal redistribution were released on Tuesday this last week but unfortunately I was busy at the time packing up to move house the next day. I have now had a chance to update the analysis I...

NSW councils – end of post-count

As of this morning, we have almost reached the end of the NSW council election count. It appears that all election day and pre-poll booths have been fully data entered, and they are just waiting for one more day of postal and declaration votes...

NSW councils – post-count

This blog post will be used to track the close counts for the 26 big partisan councils. I'm going to be busy this week packing for a house move so won't be doing big updates in one go, but I'll update a council at...

Podcast #130: NSW council election results

Ben is joined by Leo Puglisi from 6 News to analyse the results of the NSW local government elections. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. You can listen to an ad-free...