The Tally Room

This is a quick blog post about a story that I've missed up until now. As they do every four years, the South Australian electoral boundaries are currently in the process of being redistributed. The draft boundaries are due to be released at 11am Adelaide...

Nominations closed on Friday for the Northern Territory election - to be held two weeks from today. The number of independents running in the coming election has increased dramatically, with five sitting independent MPs running for election and a former chief minister running for his...

Voters in the Northern Territory go to the polls on August 27 to elect a new Legislative Assembly. The Country Liberal Party returned to power in 2012 after eleven years of Labor government, and the last three years have been tumultuous. There has been one change...

There's been a lot of attention over the last few days on the newly elected One Nation senator from Queensland, Malcolm Roberts. His election was a bit of a surprise, whereas we were confident that Pauline Hanson would win her seat, and her two...

One of the exciting things about the new Senate voting system is that we are on the verge of gaining a lot of new data on how people preference. The AEC has released the full dataset of Senate preferences for the last few elections,...

I've got a piece prepared for the Guardian today which discusses the Tasmanian Senate result but I had some thoughts that didn't fit in to include here. Firstly, the challenge in winning a seat from below the line isn't just in gaining enough primary votes...