The Tally Room

The AEC yesterday released the final electoral boundaries for New South Wales for the next federal election. While they are planning to commence a Victorian redistribution early in 2010, it won't be done in time for the election, meaning that all seats in Australia...

The Daily Telegraph this morning reports a story that the NSW Liberal Party have approached recently-retired rugby league player Hazem El Masri as a candidate for the state seat of Lakemba at the 2011 state election. It's a fascinating story indicating how ambitious the NSW...

Former Campbelltown mayor Russell Matheson has begun a preselection challenge against Pat Farmer, Liberal member for Macarthur, nominating for the party's preselection, which will take place in the next few weeks. Matheson has been a Campbelltown councillor since 1991, and in that time has served...

Last Friday the AEC released the final Queensland electoral boundaries for the next federal election. These boundaries include a small number of changes from the draft boundaries, and Antony Green has posted updated notional margins for each seat based on the 2007 election results....

Because twelve would be silly. This week's North Shore Times reports that Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party plan to nominate multiple candidates in the Bradfield by-election. Why? Well, why not? Apparently they have already chosen two candidates and could choose as many as nine more: Campaign...

I've just posted my guide to the upcoming Higgins by-election, including booth maps. Go comment.

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...