The Tally Room

Unfortunately I wasn't able to follow results last night for the two Tasmanian Legislative Council seats that went to the polls yesterday. Tasmania's upper house never faces the polls all at once - its fifteen seats go to the polls over a six year...

The federal Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters (JSCEM) held hearings yesterday in Canberra, where representatives from five political parties presented evidence on how to reform the Senate voting system, following previous hearings from experts and officials over the last three months. Yesterday's appearances, as well...

The next Australian election will take place Saturday week, with two Tasmanian upper house electorates electing representatives for the next six years. I've already written profiles of both electorates, featuring the results of the 2008 election and the history of each electorate. I've now updated...

In the lead-up to the New Zealand election in September, the final map of electoral boundaries was released last Thursday. The changes are relatively minor in most seats, although a large number of electorates saw some change in comparison to the draft boundaries. Back in...

After the closeness of the 2013 election, we were all ready for a close contest in 2014, but that hasn't eventuated. At the end of election night, the ALP's Louise Pratt looked like she had a chance of overtaking the Liberal Party's Linda Reynolds...

8:09 - And that's it for tonight. Short and sweet election night. 8:07 - One last point to raise before finishing this liveblog. If you assume that the Greens vote mainly flowed to Labor, it seems that roughly half of the AEU candidate's vote flowed...

One of the smallest Australian elections will be coming up this Saturday, April 12, in the Northern Territory electorate of Blain. Blain covers the southern suburbs of Palmerston, the major town that lays outside of Darwin. The seat was held since the 1999 by-election by...

Yesterday's post predicted that the most likely outcome in the WA Senate election is that Liberal candidate Linda Reynolds will widen her lead over the ALP's Louise Pratt, thanks to a large batch of postal votes yet to be counted. I still think this is...

At the time of writing, the result of yesterday's Senate re-run in Western Australia is still up in the air, but is much clearer and easier to understand than the 2013 result. The first two Liberal candidates (David Johnston and Michaelia Cash) and the lead...

10:15pm - I'm going to sign off here for the night. I'll be back with another post tomorrow. As a summary, here are the key points: There has been a large swing against both the ALP and the Liberal Party, with the two major parties...