The Tally Room

This morning saw remarkable events in South Australian politics, involving a prominent federal politician launching an aborted attempt to enter state politics, and a threat from a sitting Premier to resign weeks out from an election. Don Farrell, a prominent Labor senator and one of...

This is a short post to let readers know that the guide to the South Australian election is complete. In addition to profiles of all 47 electorates, I have written up sections on South Australian political history, the last redistribution, the key seats and the...

With nominations declared on Friday, eleven candidates are off and running for the Griffith by-election on 8 February. The federal seat was vacated by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd following his party's defeat at the 2013 election. These eleven candidates include candidates from Labor, the Liberal...

So after a week of speculation and rumour, Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings acted today to move Tasmania towards the next state election. Giddings met with the Governor this morning, and then proceeded to sack the two Greens ministers from her cabinet and announce an election...

Following on from recent speculation about a possible snap election to be called in Tasmania, the Tally Room guide to the next Tasmanian state election is now up on the website. Tasmania last went to the polls in March 2010, and the next election was expected to...

After the Christmas break, the Tally Room is back - and starting the new year by covering the South Australian state election, to be held in March. I have started work on the Tally Room guide to the SA election, with profiles of sixteen key electorates...

Last Thursday, the first round of draft boundaries for the next New Zealand election was released to the public. After extensive work, I have now produced a Google Earth map of the boundaries, as well as estimates of the vote for each party in the...

LNP-turned-independent Queensland MP Scott Driscoll resigned from Parliament earlier this week, facing the threat of expulsion from the Parliament. His seat of Redcliffe will go to the polls in early 2014 - meaning we now have two expected by-elections due in early 2014 in Brisbane...

As I reported earlier this year, Queensland is progressing with a plan to de-amalgamate four former local council areas from the super-councils created in 2007-8. Voters in these four areas voted in favour of de-amalgamating in March 2013. All four of these council areas elected new...

The Western Australian government has recently unveiled its latest plans to drastically reduce the number of councils covering the Perth area. The latest model reduces the number of councils in Perth from 30 to 15, with only three councils left without boundary changes. One council...