WA 2021 – the impact of the redistribution

Western Australia conducts redistributions of the state electoral boundaries every four years, so each election sees a new set of electoral boundaries. The recent redistribution...

WA 2021 – early voting opens

Early voting will open on Wednesday in the Western Australian state election, with pre-poll voting open for the better part of three weeks. Over the...

Podcast #48: introduction to the WA election

We're back for 2021, and on this week's podcast Ben is joined by Christine Cunningham and Martin Drum to get us up to speed...

Queensland 2020 – new data showing change in method of voting

I spent some time over the summer compiling new datasets for some of the elections held in 2020. At the moment I have published...

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...