The Tally Room

Via Possum, we find that Essential Research released a poll yesterday including questions about various issues, and one in particular has piked my interest. Thinking about the Government’s proposed emissions trading scheme (called the carbon pollution reduction scheme) to address climate change by which the...

A few bits of interesting information today: Former AFL footballer, pornstar, mayoral candidate and general Gold Coast identity Warwick Capper will be standing in the south-east seat of Beaudesert, the same electorate that Pauline Hanson will be contesting. Capper, who formerly lived in the electorate,...

Tomorrow will see the first major elections in Europe since the onset of the global economic crisis. Up to four million voters in Spain will head to the polls to elect governments in the Basque and Galicia regions. Spanish politics is fairly diverse, particularly at...

Indooroopilly is considered one of the Liberal Party's traditional Brisbane seats, and is the only seat to cross the Brisbane River, lying in Brisbane's western suburbs. The 2001 Beattie landslide saw the seat fall to the 25-year-old Ronan Lee. He managed to hold on...

You might be surprised that the political capital of the United States, Washington, DC., still lacks any representation in the US Congress, while it casts 3electoral votes in Presidential elections and the role of the Mayor and the city council are severely curtailed by...

I love reading all the psephological blogs in Australia (primarily Crikey's Poll Bludger and Possum), as well as the bits of psephological content on a bunch of broader political blogs. However, it's never enough, and I like to read psephological blogs from other English-speaking...

Today's Courier Mail carries a poll by Galaxy, giving both the ALP and LNP 50% of the two-party-preferred, with the LNP leading on 43% of the primary vote, with the ALP on 42%. The Courier Mail makes an interesting comparison with the election fourteen...

Via the NZ Greens' Frogblog, the NZ Greens female co-leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons, has announced this week that she will be stepping down as co-leader at the June national conference. She reveals in her video that already two of her colleagues, Metiria Turei and Sue...

Some of you might be interested in coming along to this event tonight: Join GetUp members in Sydney for a talk by US political luminary Joe Trippi on the future of online politics. When: Thursday 26 February. 7-9pm (please arrive at 6:30) Where: Teachers Federation Building Auditorium,...

I've decided to start a series going in-depth into particular key electorates in this electorate. Most of these are races between the ALP and LNP, although I will include two independent seats as well as Indooroopilly, and today's seat. Pauline Hanson has announced that she...