Launching the WA election guide
The Western Australian state election will be held on March 9.
The Tally Room guide is still a work in progress, but you can now...
Federal election: September 14
This afternoon, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that the next federal election will be held on Saturday, 14 September.
Past practice in Australia is for...
A new year: 2013 election guide
After extensive work, the first stage of the Tally Room's guide to the 2013 Australian federal election has now been posted.
The first twenty seat...
NSW – drawing a new map
I have an article in New Matilda today about the upcoming NSW state redistribution and I wanted to post some additional information here at...
South Australian redistribution finished
Over the weekend I finished a Google Earth map of the finalised 2014 boundaries for the South Australian state election. I had previously posted...
Elsewhere in the media…
Last week I had a piece published on New Matilda about the experiment with election privatisation at the recent NSW local government elections.
I will also...
USA 2012: Another election mess
The mess that is US election administration was demonstrated most clearly at the 2000 presidential election, when the result hinged on an effective tie...
USA 2012: All about demographics
The big story of last week’s US presidential election was the impact of demographic change on election results. While Mitt Romney won a large...
USA 2012: Results wrap
Tuesday's election was definitely a strong result for the Democrats, with Republicans picking up the scraps with a few victories.
The Democrats performed very strongly...
USA 2012: Election results live
Barack Obama elected to second term, with at least 274 electoral votes.
50/51 states called
Barack Obama - 303
Mitt Romney - 206
5:18pm - That's all for...