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For today's blog post, I thought I'd wrap up the remaining urban teal contests in Sydney and Perth. To start with, this map shows the seats of Wentworth, Mackellar, Warringah and Bradfield. The first three have incumbent independents running for re-election, while the fourth had...

For today's booth map we're staying in Melbourne but heading slightly south-east, to look at the two incumbent teal MPs in Melbourne: Zoe Daniel's seat of Goldstein and Monique Ryan's seat of Kooyong. Daniel was defeated in Goldstein, while Ryan narrowly held on in...

Ben was joined by Kevin Bonham to run through the close seats and the Senate race that have dragged out, one week after the election. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your...

Throughout this week, and perhaps the next, I will be posting booth maps for interesting seats, or clusters of seats. I will be doing this while also tracking the election results as seats continue to be called. But these maps generally just show the...

The House of Representatives contest has been a very comfortable win for Labor, and this has also been reflected in the Senate. One of the biggest deciding factors in the Senate is whether either the left or right can win a "4-2 split", where their...

5:19 - Over 80% of the vote has been added to the Flinders 2CP count, including every vote that's not an ordinary election day booth. The preference flow to the independent is still stuck on 70.7%. Just as a reminder, Ben Smith needs 76.6%...

The Australian Electoral Commission has now started publishing three-candidate-preferred counts for some electorates where the final two are not clear. They have published seat-level totals for a series of seats at this page, but these seem to be not quite as advanced as the...

For tonight's update, I'm going to first touch on the races I included in this morning's post and how they have changed. Those are the seats that are conventional close races. Then I will turn my focus to the seats where the two-candidate-preferred count has...

At the time of writing on Monday evening, there appear to be 17 close seats worth following over the next few days. By my reckoning there are three types of seats worth watching: Conventional close seats - Bradfield, Bullwinkel, Goldstein, Kooyong, Longman, Menzies, Wills Seats...

Ben is joined by William Bowe from the Poll Bludger to discuss the results of yesterday's Australian federal election, which produced Labor's best result since 1943. We talk about the close seats, how multi-party politics is transforming local electorate contests and what is likely...