The Tally Room

After independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott announced they would not be contesting their seats earlier today, we now have answers from all 150 members of the House of Representatives as to whether they are running for re-election. Twenty members of the House of...

Voters in the New Zealand electorate of Ikaroa-Rāwhiti go to the polls this Saturday to elect their local MP after the death of Labour's Parekura Horomia in April. Ikaroa-Rāwhiti is one of seven Māori electorates in New Zealand. In addition to the 63 "general" electorates, a parallel...

A substantial amount of analysis was produced yesterday about the draft boundaries for the NSW redistribution. You can look at the maps here. Antony Green has posted his estimated margins for each electorate. He estimates that the ALP has lost two seats net to the Liberal Party....

The NSW Electoral Commission has released the draft boundaries for the NSW state redistribution this morning. I'm at work today so won't be able to do any in-depth analysis until later. I'm sure Antony Green will post his analysis today, and in the meantime you...

Earlier today I posted the full list of candidates compiled in the creation of the Tally Room election guide. You can view it here. The list has already expanded to 473. This data makes it possible to look at the gender balance of candidates running, and what effect...

While I have been preparing the Tally Room election guide for the upcoming federal election, I have compiled a list of all candidates who have been announced. Each candidate that comes to my attention has been posted on the page of the relevant electorate, but I've...

After a year preparing maps, posting seat profiles and pulling together a large amount of information, the Tally Room guide to the 2013 federal election is now finished and ready for the campaign to start in earnest. Seat profiles have now been posted for all 150...

The seat of Batman in the inner north of Melbourne has been in the news since Martin Ferguson announced his retirement earlier this week. Earlier today I was discussing the geography of Batman: specifically how the Greens do better in the south of the electorate. One...

Earlier in May I wrote a blog post and an article at New Matilda about the surge in parties registering for the upcoming federal election, including speculation about a large number of parties trying to register for the election at the last minute. The Australian Electoral...

Yesterday's by-election in the NSW state seat of Northern Tablelands saw a result in line with expectations: the Nationals won the seat with a massive swing and a comfortable majority on primary votes. The seat has a history of being held by the Nationals before...