The Tally Room

Note: I'm going to be away from the internet for much of this week, so expect less regular posts. But I'll be back on Saturday to get ready for Tuesday's US election. Jon Stewart examines the various "anti-American" accusations made by conservative politicians in the...

Since Eisenhower's first election in 1952, Virginia has been a solidly Republican state, only going to the Democrats in the landslide election of 1964. As a former Confederate state, the state was solidly Democratic until the 1950s and 1960s, which saw a switch to...

Gordon Brown has had a bad year with by-elections in the UK. Four by-elections were held in two months in the summer of 2008. Labour lost the seat of Crewe and Nantwich to the Conservatives in May. Following the election of Conservative Boris Johnson...

New Zealand goes to the polls on November 8 to elect its national Parliament. New Zealand uses the Mixed Member Proportional system (which is best explained by Deborah at Larvatus Prodeo) which means that, in addition to 63 general electorates, and 7 Maori electorates,...

It seems that the ACT Electoral Commission is updating results every evening around this time (although I'm running on Wednesday night's results. Each day they enter a certain number of booths worth of ballots into the computer, then they distribute the preferences for those...

As an extra item for people to consider, Charlie Cook lays out how the metrics of the race show that Obama's position is much stronger than what the polls say. The simple facts he lay out demonstrate Obama's dominance and how John McCain will...

The United States will elect its 44th President in less than two weeks time, on Tuesday, November 4. You would have to say that Barack Obama is in a dominant position as we move into the final stretch. According to Pollster.com, Barack Obama holds...

Support for the Greens has increased markedly since the beginning of 2008. Newspoll has shown an increase in the party vote over the 10% barrier for the first time, recently reaching 13%. State Newspolls have the party polling over 10% in all mainland states,...

I haven't written a full analysis post on any of the US House races yet, but just wanted to share this: arch-conservative Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann from Minnesota's 6th Congressional District calling Barack Obama "Anti-American" and getting torn to shreds by Chris Matthews for the...

In addition to the Presidential election and the House of Representatives, one third of the US Senate will be elected. In addition to the 33 "class II" senators last elected in 2002, two special elections will be held to fill casual vacancies in Mississippi...