The Tally Room

Today we saw the conclusion of the count in Tasmania's electorates, with all five electorates now finalised. Results in Franklin and Bass were reasonably decisive, with Labor MPs David O'Byrne and Brian Wightman losing their seats to the Liberal Party. In Lyons, former Labor MP David...

In the lead-up to the state elections in South Australia and Tasmania, I didn't have time to cover another electoral story in the Australian Capital Territory. After many years of debate, and competing proposals, the ACT Legislative Assembly appears set to increase in size,...

South Australia’s election produced a result that has sparked a lot of interest: despite the Liberal Party winning a majority of the two-party-preferred vote (and by even more than in 2010), the Liberal Party has won less seats than the ALP, and we appear...

Each group running in the WA Senate by-election submitted their group voting tickets on Saturday, which will direct preferences for above-the-line votes cast for each group. With the state elections in South Australia and Tasmania, I've only now had time to analyse the preferences...

There are six seats that sit on margins of less than 2% at the current point in the counting, I will run through each of these electorates and summarise the situation. In short, the results suggest that it is not possible in five of these...

At the end of the night, the election result in South Australia is extremely close, and we don't know who will be forming government. At the moment, the ABC has called the result in 46 out of 47 electorates, and these seats break down along...

Tasmanian voters elected a Liberal government tonight, but a number of seats are still up for grabs. In four out of five electorates, the Liberal Party has gained a third seat. In two additional electorates, another seat is yet to be decided. In some other...

11:17pm - I'm going to leave the results there for the night. A wrap-up of the South Australian results will be up shortly, including some analysis of the key races and the Legislative Council, where it appears that the three incumbent crossbench MLCs have...

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced on Monday that the next New Zealand election will be held on September 20. I'll be providing a full guide to the election, but won't be able to start until the new electoral boundaries are finalised in April. In...

Nominations were declared this afternoon for the Senate by-election in Western Australia. 77 candidates have nominated, an increase from 62 who ran in last September's election. These candidates are running in 33 groups, as well as two ungrouped independents. All but one of the groups is...