The Tally Room

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

Polls close in New Zealand at 7pm NZDT (5pm AEDT). I'm not sure how long the count will take, but I should be liveblogging from 5:15pm AEDT. I thought I'd run through what are the key points to follow. Labour-National marginal seats - DON'T bother...

A brief note that the Labour Party has held onto the Scottish seat of Glenrothes in yesterday's by-election. The seat was expected to fall to the Scottish National Party when the by-election was triggered, but since the financial crisis Brown has been performing better...

Via Crikey, Manhattan tech blogger Jason Kottke has posted a variety of different organisations' maps used to display results in the US presidential election. They are all interesting to look at the different styles, but there's two I wanted to post in particular, from...

The Senate The Democrats have picked up at least six Senate seats: Virginia North Carolina New Hampshire Colorado New Mexico Oregon, which was only declared today after a close count. Three other races could end up going to the Democrat. In Alaska, despite the polls, convicted felon Ted Stevens was re-elected, 48%...

Barack Obama has been elected 44th President of the United States. In addition to winning all of those states won by John Kerry in 2004 (Hawaii, the three West Coast states, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, DC and everything to the northeast, including...