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After the publication of the proposed boundaries for Victoria and Western Australia for the next federal election, I had a number of questions about how the boundaries would have looked on the 2019 votes, particularly in WA. There was a big change in votes between...

Ben is joined by Kevin Elliott, author of the book Democracy for Busy People to discuss the value of importance of designing democratic institutions but are broad, not just deep, and make it easy for all citizens to participate. We also discuss the importance of...

Last Friday's analysis tended to focus on two scales: either the level of the individual seat, or looking at the party totals across each state. At the federal redistributions in Victoria and Western Australia, three seats had a change in party status: Bullwinkel was created...

6:12pm - I have one last update and then my margins will be finalised. There are four seats in Victoria where independents made it to the two-candidate-preferred count (2CP), but have added new areas where there was no independent in the 2CP: Goldstein, Kooyong, Nicholls...

I've had a request to open up a comments thread for the upcoming UK election. I'm not planning to cover that election on this site, but if you'd like to discuss it, you can do so here.

If you're a listener to the Tally Room podcast, you might have heard a few ads recently. As of today, I have a new benefit for people who pay $5 or more per month to support the Tally Room on Patreon - a donors-only ad-free...

Ben was joined by Ruth McGowan, a candidate mentor and advocate for women in politics. We discussed the trends of increasing numbers of women being elected to public office in Australia, what barriers remain and what work is being done to get more women...

Speculation about an early federal election never goes away, and I've noticed more recently in relation to the possibility of a federal election later this year. While you can debate the political merits of such a decision, the current redistribution processes make it pretty much...

The NSW special minister of state, John Graham, yesterday announced that the government will ask the state Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters (JSCEM) to hold an inquiry into rates of eligible voters participating in NSW state elections, with a goal of achieving 100%...

Ben is joined by Kerryn Baker from the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University to discuss the recent elections in the Solomon Islands, which ended with a new prime minister, if not an entirely new government. This podcast is supported by the Tally...