The Tally Room

10:57pm - There won't be anymore to contribute here tonight. Please head over to the Guardian liveblog if you want to read more of my thoughts. I'll be back tomorrow with a Guardian piece, and will put something together for this website too. 9:46pm -...

Polls will open in 25 hours in Queensland and the comments threads have been lighting up here with people discussing each electorate. In particular there have been a few people posting their predictions on each seat guide. So I thought I would resurrect an old tradition...

In addition to the complete guide to this weekend's Queensland state election, I've now posted guides to the federal by-elections in New England (December 2) and Bennelong (December 16). Enjoy! Bennelong New England

10:25pm - As my last contribution for tonight, here is a map of the booth results and the Greens swing (which can be toggled). 8:23pm - I'm gonna turn off for a little while and will come back once most of the votes have reported. 8:22pm...

11:41am - I won't be making any more posts in this thread but I might come back later today with a summary. 10:54am - Eleven of the 'no' seats are held by Labor MPs. Five of the other six are held by the Coalition, and...

Nominations closed on Tuesday for the Queensland state election, so I've done one last update for my candidate list. There are 453 candidates running: an average of 4.87 per seat. Labor, the Liberal National Party and the Greens are all running a full ticket. There are...

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...