The Tally Room

Nominations close today in the Queensland state election. I did an update of candidates last night, checking each of the main party websites for missing candidates, and taking onboard all the candidate updates posted in comments - thanks to you all. You can view the...

I'll be undertaking some maintenance tomorrow morning on this website. I'll have to copy the contents of the website over to a new server, so there'll be a period where any new comments may be lost. I plan to do this between 9am and...

I have been compiling a list of candidates for the Queensland election as I always do, regularly updating the lists on each seat guide. I ran an update last night, after the Premier's election announcement, and was surprised at the number of vacant spots on...

I've been quite busy recently and hadn't had time to deal with the recent draft released for the Queensland federal redistribution. To be honest it's the least interesting redistribution I've encountered in the nine years I have written for this blog. Queensland is maintaining its 30...

7:28pm - Okay last update for a few hours. The Nationals have increased their lead on the Shooters after preferences in Murray - they now lead with 54.6% of the two-candidate-preferred vote, off 6000 votes. On primary votes they lead by 8.65% with 21%...

There are four by-elections coming up in the next six weeks in Australia's two largest states. I posted guides to two of these four by-elections last month, and the other two guides have now been posted. I've also added candidate lists for the first two. By-elections will...

I've been paying quite a bit of attention to the Inner West Council results. It's my former council area, but it's also one of the most interesting councils. The Labor, Liberal and Greens parties all feature prominently, along with a wide variety of independents. I've...

After a week of counting, we are starting to get final ward results declared in some of the fifteen big councils I've been covering. I'm going to use this post to update as we get waves of results over the next few days. Saturday evening We now...

I've pulled together the primary vote totals as of this afternoon and calculated swings for each council and ward in urban NSW. I've restricted my analysis to councils between Newcastle and Shellharbour, as councils outside this area are almost always dominated by independents. Across this region, here...

In this post I will quickly summarise the state of play in the 14 most populous councils I have analysed (excluding Ku-ring-gai, where no tickets are standing across multiple wards). I'll be back later today with some analysis of the swings across the councils and...