The Tally Room

In today's Sydney Morning Herald, the surprisingly-large "upcoming elections in large Asian countries whose name begins with an I" has a couple of articles of interest for election junkies. In Indonesia, the Herald has reported that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is staring down a shadowy...

Former Liberal leader John Hewson penned a piece in today's Crikey speculating at the possibility of an early federal election later this year. He points out, reasonably enough, that the economic crisis will likely hit harder in 2010 and that the Emissions Trading Scheme...

Being a Greens member, I'm gonna refrain from commenting on this story, so I'll just quote from this AAP story: Greens MP Lee Rhiannon has told her party she will stand down from the NSW upper house ahead of the next federal election in a...

Guest post from Ofir Thaler: In predicting the winners in Israeli elections, especially in the last 15 years, it is nowhere near enough to just look at the top of the list of parties and see how the large parties are faring against each other....

Only days ago, Jack Layton's NDP remained in a technical coalition with Michael Ignatieff's Liberals in Canada. Yet after the coalition was dissolved by Ignatieff supporting the Conservative budget, Layton has lashed out at the Liberals in a new round of radio ads: “Some things...

So Canada's conservative government has brought down a budget, eight weeks after Parliament was prorogued to prevent a new Liberal-NDP coalition government being formed. The NDP and the Bloc have clearly stated that they will vote against the budget, and have been joined by the...

The voters go to the polls in Iceland on 9 May to elect a new Parliament. The current government fell in the last few days as Iceland is buffetted by the winds of the economic crisis. The last election, in 2007, saw the centre-right...

Essential Research has produced a fascinating poll, asking voters who they thought was Australia's best post-WWII Prime Minister. The poll put the 21st century Prime Ministers well ahead of their predecessors, with 28% saying John Howard and 20% saying Kevin Rudd, followed by Bob...

The Canadian province of British Columbia will go to the polls on May 12, 2009, to elect 85 members of the Legislative Assembly, and vote on a referendum to change the electoral system used in future provincial elections. British Columbian politics is particularly unusual in...

As a special pre-inauguration treat, for all of you staying up through the night, check out AOL's slide show of "before and after" photos of US presidents at the beginning and end of their terms. In particular, check out Nixon, Reagan and Johnson.