The Tally Room

Ireland voted on Friday in a referendum on allowing same-sex marriage, and it passed overwhelmingly. Since I have previously produced a Google map of Ireland's parliamentary constituencies (download it here), I thought I would put together a quick map showing the shape of the vote by...

Two weeks ago I wrote a piece for the Guardian putting the case for reform to the system of Senate group voting tickets, in response to a number of pieces arguing against reform on the basis of who is for the reform, or who...

8:27am - Polls have now closed in the UK election, and over the course of the day we will be getting results from each constituency. I won't be providing a constant thread of updates but will occasionally post updates through the day. The main exit poll...

Voters in the United Kingdom will be voting tomorrow (Thursday 7 May) to elect a new House of Commons - expected to be the second hung parliament in a row. The first-past-the-post system used for the House of Commons, which in the past has been...

Last year, I wrote up an analysis of the prospects for the current redistribution of federal electorates in NSW. In late April, the final population data, provided to well below the suburb level, was released. In addition to updated population figures as of the end of...

Voters on Saturday voted in three out of fifteen Tasmanian Legislative Council electorates, and in all three they re-elected their incumbent MLCs. In the north-eastern seat of Windermere, conservative independent Ivan Dean saw off three centre-left rivals, including endorsed Labor and Greens candidates. In the north-western...

7:38pm - Most booths have now reported in all three seats, and in Derwent and Mersey the result seems pretty clear. In Windermere, Ivan Dean is sitting on 43.9%, ahead of Labor's Houston on 28.7%. That's probably enough for Dean to win. 6:53pm - I...

Two weeks ago, I wrote a post explaining the problems that have cropped up around the NSW Electoral Commission's iVote internet voting system, and the broader questions it raises about the future of electronic and internet voting. After discussing the issue further with various experts,...

The recent NSW state election saw a continuation of the long-term trend of less and less people casting ordinary election-day votes. In addition, in 2015 we saw the trend of increasing numbers of voters casting absentee votes or postal votes reversed, with those categories...

Now that the NSW election is coming to a close, I wanted to give an update on how the website is going, and my plans for the coming months. Yesterday I posted my guide for the Tasmanian Legislative Council elections on May 2nd. After this, there...