The Tally Room

I've written a piece for the Guardian going through the numbers of candidates running at this point. Since I wrote that piece yesterday afternoon, I've identified nineteen more candidates: The Nationals candidate for Hunter The Labor candidate for Moore And seventeen (!) Liberal Democrats lower house...

Yesterday I posted a quick summary of the NSW government's council amalgamation announcement. Today I wanted to run through the partisan impact of the councils being created, and the impacts on the next NSW council elections. In December, I assessed the proposed council amalgamations by calculating...

As a further taste of the seat guides being posted now on the Tally Room (53 and counting), I thought I'd run through another three interesting seats. Today these three seats are all seats with above-average Greens votes, but also with a wide variation...

I have a blog post in the Guardian today about the flood of party logos being registered by political parties since the Senate reform legislation was passed in March. At the upcoming election, all parties will get to have their logo printed on ballots...

At the time of writing, I've finished the first 21 out of 150 seat profiles - covering marginal Coalition seats on margins of 4.4% or less. This work continues behind the scenes but isn't often seen by casual readers, so in this post I thought...