The Tally Room

11:10am - We're getting early figures in for a bunch of constituencies. They are all confirming the trend that we have seen. In Donegal South-West, the Deputy PM, Mary Coughlan, is in trouble. 9:04am - I've been doing some number-crunching of the 2007 election results...

Ireland's electoral system is one that is relatively familiar to Australians, but quite unusual around the world, using a system similar to Hare-Clark, used in Tasmania and the ACT. The lower house of the Irish Parliament, the Dáil Éireann, has existed in various forms for...

Ireland goes to the polls this Friday in a general election that will likely see a massive shift in Irish politics. The current Irish government has been in power since 1997, led by the conservative Fianna Fail party. They have been in coalition since 2007...

With the NSW Labor government on track for a massive defeat, I thought I'd look into the history of massive landslide defeats in Westminster system countries. Most of the examples I found came from Canada, mainly from provincial elections, along with a few other...

Yesterday's Nielsen poll has Labor still on track for a catastrophic defeat. Along with the January Galaxy poll, the Nielsen poll has the ALP polling only 34% of the two-party-preferred vote, compared to the Coalition on 66%. On primary votes, the Coalition has hit a...

I have now finished my guide to the NSW state election, to be held on 26 March. The guide includes profiles of all 93 Legislative Assembly districts, as well as overviews of NSW political history, recent political events, the key seats, and the race...

The long, painful death of the Irish government entered its final stage over the last few days, with mass resignations of Cabinet ministers and conflict between the two governing parties resulted in the general election being called for March 11. Ireland's government includes the major...

I've left the front page of the blog quiet for most of the last month while I have worked hard at posting seat profiles for all 93 Legislative Assembly districts for the upcoming NSW state election on March 26. I have now finished 62 electoral...

I have now finished maps for 88 of 93 seats in the NSW Legislative Assembly and plan to finish the remainder in the next few days. Throughout December and January you should see profiles of each seat go up on the site, but I...

Following on from my post on the Greens overtaking the ALP on the north shore of Sydney, I have just been working on the booth map for the north coast seat of Ballina. The seat covers Ballina Shire and most of Byron Shire. Byron...