The Tally Room

Tasmania goes to the polls in October to elect local councillors across the state. Tasmania is broken up into twenty-nine LGAs. Tasmanian councils are not elected using wards: instead half of each council is elected every two years representing the entire council area, with...

I've just finished a map of Wales' new parliamentary constituencies. Wales uses the same fourty constituencies to elect their fourty members of the House of Commons as well as electing fourty of their sixty members of the National Assembly of Wales. The fourty constituencies are...

The Republic of Ireland has voted decisively to overturn the result of the June 2008 referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, with a 20% swing to 'yes' producing a two-thirds majority for the 'yes' side. The Lisbon treaty, which updates the structures of the European Union,...

The Republic of Ireland could be less than two weeks away from the triggering of a general election. The Green Party will be meeting on October 10 to vote on a new program for government, and the party's leader, John Gormley, has made it...

The website of the Federal Returning Officer in Germany has great maps showing the results of the German election (as well as the previous election). In particular, they've produced maps showing the results in each constituency. Germany's Bundestag includes 299 MPs representing single-member constituenncy,...

The Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union are on track to form a new government in Germany following yesterday's election, although the conservative major party has only made modest gains. The big change, however, is the collapse in support for the Social Democrats. The...

I have now completed guides to the races for the Senate in Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. I'd appreciate any comments. In particular I'm stll looking for information on preselections for the Senate within the major parties.

The Herald this morning is reporting that the favourite for today's Liberal preselection for the Bradfield by-election is communications executive Paul Fletcher. Liberal Party sources have also confirmed to me that number crunchers following the preselection believe Fletcher has the numbers to win. Fletcher is...

There's been an assumption that the next federal redistribution for Victoria will be delayed until after the 2010 federal election. Victoria last had a redistribution in 2002, and every seven years a state must have a redistribution. However, redistributions cannot begin in the last...

The federal government today released its second Electoral Reform Green Paper, following on from a Green Paper dealing with election funding released in December 2008. The document is a comprehensive examination of all issues around Australian elections, blowing out to 260 pages in total.  Each...