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...