Post-spill candidate update

The candidate list posted on Wednesday morning quickly went out of date, with Julia Gillard and three of her ministers announcing their retirement despite...

Labor leadership spill tonight at 7pm

Julia Gillard has called a caucus meeting at 7pm for a leadership spill, and has said that if she loses she will leave politics. I...

Candidate update: 550 candidates posted

After independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott announced they would not be contesting their seats earlier today, we now have answers from all...

By-election this Saturday in Ikaroa-Rāwhiti

Voters in the New Zealand electorate of Ikaroa-Rāwhiti go to the polls this Saturday to elect their local MP after the death of Labour's Parekura...

NSW redistribution boundaries – the next day

A substantial amount of analysis was produced yesterday about the draft boundaries for the NSW redistribution. You can look at the maps here. Antony Green has...

NSW redistribution – draft boundaries released

The NSW Electoral Commission has released the draft boundaries for the NSW state redistribution this morning. I'm at work today so won't be able to...

Gender balance in the Parliament: what the data says

Earlier today I posted the full list of candidates compiled in the creation of the Tally Room election guide. You can view it here. The list has...

Open data: the full candidates list

While I have been preparing the Tally Room election guide for the upcoming federal election, I have compiled a list of all candidates who have...

Federal election guide now up and running

After a year preparing maps, posting seat profiles and pulling together a large amount of information, the Tally Room guide to the 2013 federal election...

What a map can show

The seat of Batman in the inner north of Melbourne has been in the news since Martin Ferguson announced his retirement earlier this week. Earlier...