WA 2021 – upper house preferences released

Western Australia's upper house still uses the discredited group voting ticket system to distribute preferences, the same system last used for the Senate in...

WA 2021 – final candidates announced

Nominations closed in Western Australia on Friday, with a record number of candidates nominating in both houses. 463 candidates have nominated for the Legislative Assembly,...

WA 2021 – candidate update

Nominations will close later today for the Western Australian state election (12pm WA time). I have been keeping up a list of candidates who have...

Guide to the Western Australian state election

The summer break is over for the Tally Room, and I'm back with a big new project: the guide to the 2021 Western Australian...

That’s it for 2020

Now that I've finished posting about all of the redistributions happening at the moment, I'll be bringing down the shutters on this blog for...

Victorian state redistribution kicks off

Just as the South Australian redistribution finishes, and alongside a state redistribution in New South Wales and two federal redistributions, the starters pistol has...

SA redistribution – final map and margins

The final boundaries for the South Australian state electoral redistribution were released in November, and I have just finished producing my new map of...

NSW redistribution – draft map and margins

It's taken some time, but I have now finalised my map of the New South Wales draft electoral boundaries for the 2023 and 2027...

NZ 2020 – voting data shows how voters split their votes

New Zealand voters cast two votes, but (unlike in Australian federal elections) they are cast on a single piece of paper. This means it...

9 votes in Bundaberg wraps up Queensland

The final results of the Queensland state election were decided yesterday, with Labor winning a recount in the seat of Bundaberg by nine votes,...