The Tally Room

10:21pm - Let's look at Bayside. Labor is on six seats (thanks to a massive vote in the Port Botany ward), the Liberal Party is on five, there are three independents, and one seat is still in play. Greens candidate Greta Werner has a solid...

polls are open today in a bunch of councils across NSW - the new amalgamated councils and those who survived amalgamation attempts. I'll be covering the results tonight from 6:30pm. Today I'll be driving around to some of the polling booths in Sydney, so check...

We're due for two state by-elections in New South Wales later this year, and I've just finished guides for both electorates, which you can read now. Blacktown Former NSW opposition leader John Robertson has announced plans to resign. Labor should easily retain this seat. Cootamundra Former Nationals minister...

The 2015 Queensland election was very close, with neither party winning a majority of seats. Labor is estimated to hold 48 seats, while the LNP holds 42 seats. There are two Katter's Australian Party seat, and one independent seat. 47 seats are needed for...

Queensland has recently undergone a redistribution of state electoral boundaries, the first in almost a decade. The existing boundaries were used at three elections: 2009, 2012 and 2015. The number of seats was increased from 89 to 93. This resulted in the creation of five...

There is speculation that the next Queensland state election could take place in the next few months, and in preparation for this election I've now completed my guide to the 93 electorates which will be contested. Each guide, as is usual, contains a history of...

This is just a quick post to note that nominations closed last Wednesday in the NSW council elections. I've posted the full candidate lists for the fifteen largest councils on my council guides. Read the guides via these links: Bayside Canterbury-Bankstown Central Coast Cumberland Georges...

In the process of putting together my guide to the Queensland election, I had to consider how to handle the potential vote for One Nation, who have polled as highly as 23% earlier this year and were sitting on 15% in the most recent...

Tasmania is currently undergoing a redistribution of its federal boundaries - the second of six federal redistributions due during this parliamentary term. The boundaries will also apply to Tasmanian state lower house elections, but probably not until the 2022 state election. The draft boundaries were...

I've made a number of updates to the data repository in preparation for the next round of state elections. I've added to the data from the 2017 WA state election. Originally I had a limited dataset for the Legislative Council election, without below-the-line vote breakdowns...