Early voting update

The Australian Electoral Commission is publishing daily statistics on the number of postal vote applications (PVAs) received, and the number of votes cast at...

Seat polls – how do they compare?

We've seen a surge in seat polls at this election. By my count I've found at least 50 polls which have been publicly released since the...

Nominations announced – final update

Nominations were declared at midday yesterday, and I've just finished updating the candidate lists for each seat and the eight Senate races. I wrote speculatively...

Candidate numbers update

I've written a piece for the Guardian going through the numbers of candidates running at this point. Since I wrote that piece yesterday afternoon, I've identified...

Candidate update

I've gotten a number of queries from people asking why their particular favoured candidate on the website. I thought I would just explain my...

NSW council amalgamations – the never-ending election

Yesterday I posted a quick summary of the NSW government's council amalgamation announcement. Today I wanted to run through the partisan impact of the councils...

NSW council amalgamations round one

This is a quick post. I'll come back later tonight with an updated map showing the new councils and their partisan breakdown, along similar...

Day 0: Election called

Malcolm Turnbull will be visiting the Governor-General shortly to call the 2016 federal election, assumed to be a double dissolution for July 2. This is the...

Introducing new interactive booth maps

As we head into the election I've been busily posting election guides - about 63 have now been posted, with the remainder due over...

Tale of three maps: Batman, Macquarie and Richmond

As a further taste of the seat guides being posted now on the Tally Room (53 and counting), I thought I'd run through another...