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...
Queensland moves to compulsory preferences
In October 2015, I wrote about an attempt by the Liberal National Party and Katter's Australian Party to pass legislation through the Queensland Parliament...
Registered party logos are a thing now!
I have a blog post in the Guardian today about the flood of party logos being registered by political parties since the Senate reform...
Three key marginals, and their interesting maps
At the time of writing, I've finished the first 21 out of 150 seat profiles - covering marginal Coalition seats on margins of 4.4%...
New Guardian blog, and guide update
Things have been quiet here for the last few weeks but a lot of things are still happening.
I've started a regular column writing for...