Sunday morning update

I'm going to spend some time today at the count for the City of Melbourne, but I thought I'd start by updating on some interesting races. In Port Phillip's Junction Ward, Greens candidate John Middleton polled 20.25% of the primary vote, and our scrutineers indicate...

Election night wrap-up

So I'm calling it a night. There may be a few more results tonight, but most of the outstanding results have yet to start counting. I'll continue reporting results tomorrow and Monday. For now, I've made these maps of wards in Victoria colour-coded according...

Liveblogging Victorian councils

You can look up results alphabetically by clicking here. 9:31pm - People have posted a bunch of results about results in Manningham, Melbourne and Brimbank, where the sitting councillor in Harvester Ward retired and the new Greens candidate managed a quota in her own right....

Victorian council election day preview

I'm sitting in Sydney airport about to board a flight to Melbourne. I'll be liveblogging results as they come in from Victorian Greens scrutineers today, tomorrow and probably Monday too. Unlike the NSWEC, which implemented a Virtual Tally Room for the first time for...

Maps update

I've updated the electoral maps for the US House of Representatives on my "maps" page. There remain four seats up for grabs. OH-15 and CA-04 remain too close to call, although in both cases the Republicans hold slight leads. LA-01 and LA-06 had their...

Victorian local government election

I know, I know, I haven't been keeping up with the blog since the NZ election. After an intense launch period, with elections in Canada, the USA, New Zealand, the ACT and a number of by-elections, I've taken some time off, but I will...

NZ: an evolving party system

New Zealand has experienced a huge amount of change in its party system over the last two decades. The resignation of Jim Anderton from the Labour Party in 1989, which resulted in the formation of the Alliance in 1991, was followed by the formation...

New Zealand update

Sorry I've been a bit slow in posting over the last few days. I thought I'd kick off again with a summary of the results in New Zealand. Four days after the NZ election, New Zealand is on track for its quickest government formation since...

This week in satire – November 10

Mostly responses to the election this week. I noticed after I'd made the list. I noticed when I made the list that a lot of them dealt with Barack Obama's race, but I guess that reflects the historic nature of his election. First up, the...

Liveblogging New Zealand

9:45pm - One more thing. Since the electorate seats seem to all have been determined, I've adjusted the colours of all general seats on my Google Earth map and will upload that right now, so that you can see the new distribution immediately. 9:40pm -...