The Tally Room

The current count in the Legislative Council is extremely complicated, with both major parties falling a long way short of a majority. In this post, I run through the latest in each region's count. But first, a summary. Labor is going to find it very...

10:52pm - My last comment is about the Legislative Council. As it currently stands, the Legislative Council will include 14 Liberals and 2 Nationals, 13 Labor MLCs, five Greens, three Shooters and one member each for Family First, Country Alliance and the Democratic Labour...

Booths have just opened in Victoria for today's state election. I'll be back tonight at 6pm with full coverage of the results, and in the meantime you can post your comments in this open thread. I appeared on Radio National's Drive program with Waleed Aly on...

While I've been busy preparing guides to the three major state elections coming up soon, I've been neglecting two by-elections due over the next two months in South Australia. The seats of Fisher and Davenport in southern Adelaide will both be electing new MPs in...

Over the weekend, I have updated every district and region profile to include the final list of candidates. You can also view and download the full list of Legislative Assembly candidates, now including ballot order. In addition, the Group Voting Tickets (GVTs) were released for...

A large swing of 14% to Labor has delivered the party the Lord Mayoralty for the first time in 15 years. Labor lost the lord mayoralty to independent John Tate in 1999. Tate was re-elected in 2004 and 2008, and replaced by Jeff McCloy...

City of Newcastle lord mayoral by-election results Candidate Party Votes % Swing Projected % Aaron Buman Independent 8,852 11.29 +3.97 11.33 David Chapman Independent 3,910 4.99 +4.99 4.99 Rod Holding Independent 1,438 1.83 +1.83 1.83 Brad Luke Independent 18,669 23.82 -19.3 23.45 Nuatali Nelmes Labor 33,107 42.24 +13.86 42.42 Joe Ferguson Australia First 1,236 1.58 +1.58 1.58 Therese Doyle Greens 11,166 14.25 +2.46 14.25 9:57pm - I've just added prepoll figures to the count. 9:50pm - Final post for tonight - I've broken down the figures by each ward of Newcastle council. Labor's vote...

Nominations closed yesterday in Victoria for the upcoming state election, and there has been a huge surge in the number of candidates running. 896 candidates are running: 351 for the Legislative Council and 545 for the Legislative Assembly. This is an 8.6% increase in the...

Today voters are going to the polls in four local council by-elections in New South Wales. Normally I wouldn't cover council by-elections, but one of these races is quite significant. The City of Newcastle will be electing a new Lord Mayor after the resignation of...

The ACT Electoral Commission has now started the process of drawing new electoral boundaries for the 2016 ACT election, and I have previously written about this impending redistribution. This redistribution is particularly interesting because the number of seats in the ACT Legislative Assembly is increasing...