The Tally Room

Last weekend I was at the Marrickville Festival and ended up chatting with one of the members of the local heritage society. For a while I've been fascinated by all of the old local councils that used to exist in Sydney prior to the...

In addition to the Sydney by-election, Saturday is election day for 78 councils across Victoria. I haven't been following the Victorian council elections closely and I probably won't be covering them in depth or being in a position to analyse them in the same depth...

Read the Tally Room guide to the Sydney by-election. Voters in the state electorate of Sydney will be voting on Saturday to choose a replacement for the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, who was forced to resign as a state MP due to a...

NSW voters elected their local councillors six weeks ago, on September 8. At the time I was working on the election campaign and thus didn't have the time to give the proper treatment to the election on this blog. Now that the Tally Room...

Saturday night's result in the ACT election wouldn't be surprising to anyone paying attention to recent elections across Australia. The Liberal Party gained ground, while the Greens lost ground. This being the ACT, however, the Liberals didn't win in a landslide. They failed to outpoll...

10:30pm - In Brindabella, the Greens have faded and are unlikely to win a seat, producing a likely result of three Liberals and two Labor. Labor's two seats will go to Joy Burch and Mick Gentleman. Gentleman held a seat from 2004 to 2008,...

Voters in Canberra go to the polls tomorrow to elect the ACT's Legislative Assembly for the next four years. The ACT Legislative Assembly is elected from three districts for a total of seventeen seats, using the Hare-Clark proportional representation system. At the 2008 election, the Labor...

7:38pm - I'm at the Greens election night party looking at results in Greens races, and I will produce some results. I've received reports from two scrutineers in Glebe and Surry Hills that Clover has won an easy majority of the primary vote for...

Others have more thoroughly covered the NT election results elsewhere. In short, the Country Liberal Party has won government entirely by winning Labor seats in remote parts of the Northern Territory, while the ALP has retained all eight of their seats in Darwin. The CLP...

Today voters in the Northern Territory go to the polls to elect members of their Legislative Assembly, while in southern Sydney the voters of Heffron are electing a successor to Kristina Keneally in the NSW Legislative Assembly. I have prepared a guide to the Heffron...