Supporting the Tally Room

We're about to enter another busy period in Australian elections. The Northern Territory votes next Saturday, followed by the ACT, Queensland and Victorian local...

Podcast #39: Introducing the NT election

Ben is joined by Robyn Smith, historian of the Northern Territory, to discuss the upcoming NT election - recent political events, the party system,...

NT 2020 – nominations close

Nominations closed yesterday for the upcoming Northern Territory election. 111 candidates have nominated, with three parties running in most seats. I've put together a...

Tasmanian LC results live

11:21pm - So this is where I'll leave tonight's brief and sporadic liveblog. I've put together booth maps showing the ordinary election day votes...

Podcast #38: Tasmanian upper house preview

Ben is joined by Kevin Bonham to talk about next weekend's elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council. Apologies for lower quality audio on Ben's part...

SA government proposes optional preferential voting

The South Australian government announced earlier this week that they plan to introduce legislation that will change the voting system from compulsory preferential voting...

NSW redistribution – parsing the major party submissions

The NSW redistribution has passed through its first stage, with the publication of suggestions about how the new electoral map should be drawn. Suggestions...

Coming up next: Tasmanian upper house elections

The next election in Australia will be taking place two weeks from tomorrow. It is the most peculiar of Australia's regular elections: the Tasmanian...

Northern Territory election guide complete

The Northern Territory general election is due next month, on August 22nd. The first-term Gunner Labor government will be seeking a second term, while their...

Podcast #37 – Eden-Monaro results and state seat entitlements

Ben is joined by William Bowe, the Poll Bludger, to discuss the results of the Eden-Monaro by-election. We then digressed into a discussion of...