The Tally Room

The United States of America holds federal elections every two years, always in even numbered years on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Every two years, all 435 members of the House of Representatives and approximately one third of the US...

Another barrier has been put in front of Tony Abbott forming a minority government. A constitutional provision prohibits anyone holding "an office of profit under the crown" from being elected to the federal Parliament. In the 1990s, this  saw two cases where members of the House...

I have gone through all of my Google Earth maps available for download from the blog for 2010 federal election boundaries, and updated the colours to the latest election results, assuming that seats in doubt such as Brisbane and Hasluck do not change hands. I...

I've had a lot of visitors in the last few days, despite the major outage suffered on the weekend. While visiting the site, you should all consider subscribing to the Tally Room's post feed. While I expect things to calm down once a new government is...

I spent today in the AEC's counting centre in Sydney where the AEC was conducting a new two-candidate preferred count between the ALP and Greens, due to the Greens outpolling the Liberal Party on primary votes. On the first day, the AEC completed the...

While we are clearly heading for a hung paarliament now, the exact nature of this hung parliament depend a great deal on the exact make-up of the Parliament. It is now clear that we will see sitting rural independent MPs Rob Oakeshott, Bob Katter and...

Remarkably, the result in the Senate is much more clear-cut than the result in the House of Representatives. The Greens are on track to win a Senate seat in all six states, giving them a total of nine seats. This clean sweep is a feat...

At the moment, it appears that the Coalition parties have won or are ahead in 73 seats, Labor in 72, Independents in four, and the Greens in one. It appears that five seats are yet to be decided. In the Hobart seat of Denison, former...

So after over 24 hours of my blog being out of action, we have returned. It appears that there was a major problem with the server used by my hosting company, and it doesn't appear to have anything to do with the immense amount...

Ever since I started this blog, I've had a tradition of making last-minute predictions of election results, recklessly making predictions about how individual seats would fall. I've quickly done one for tomorrow's federal election. I notice it's quite similar to William Bowe's over at Poll...