The Tally Room

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...

With Germany voting next week to elect a new Bundestag, I thought people might find these maps of the German results from the European Parliament election interesting. They are available on the website of the Federal Returning Officer, and show the level of support...

I'm happy to report that I have now finished the English part of my UK House of Commons electoral map. I have uploaded it to the maps page, and you can download it here. This is the final version of the map as I...

The Sydney Morning Herald ran a story today reporting planning by the NSW Liberal Party for the 2011 state election based on the assumption that the Labor Party will allow vulnerable candidates to present themselves as independent figures and oppose various state government policies: NSW...

I know the blog has been pretty dead lately, but I have some new profiles for the 2010 federal election guide up to read and comment upon. You can read profiles now for the Victorian Senate race, Denison and Franklin.