The Tally Room

Sadly yesterday we heard that federal Labor MP Peta Murphy had died of cancer after a long illness. This is a website that covers elections, and Murphy's death means a federal by-election will be coming up in her seat of Dunkley. I would expect this...

The final electoral boundaries for the next Western Australian state election were released on Friday morning. The changes mostly replicated the draft boundaries released in July, although there were a few small changes, and some dramatic changes to two seats were mostly reversed. In this...

Queensland's local councils will be up for election next March. Numerous Queensland councils, including the urban councils of the south-east, use single-member wards (called "divisions" in Queensland). As such, they are sometimes due for redistribution. This term, only four councils were up for review, none...

The federal parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters yesterday released their report into the 2022 federal election. I won't try to summarise every point covered - the report covers matters to do with election funding and Indigenous enrolment. But I wanted to mention a few...

Ben is joined by Dr Simon Hix from the European University Institute to discuss a paper he co-wrote with John Carey about finding the Electoral Sweet Spot: how low-magnitude proportional representation systems tend to combine the best of majoritarian and proportional systems. This podcast is...

There are five elections scheduled for 2024 that I'm planning to write guides for, and today I'm ready to unveil the third one of them. The ACT election will be held on October 18, just one week before Queensland. The Assembly's electorates have been redrawn, and...

9:50 - So we don't really have a valid 2CP between Labor and Liberal, so it's a bit hard to say what's going on. But while Labor at the moment is on track for a primary vote swing of 10-11%, the Liberal vote is...

Federal redistributions are currently underway in three states. While the main focus is on the boundaries of the electorates, and the electoral implications of those boundaries, it's worth also drawing some attention to the question of what we name those electorates. Australia's federal boundaries are...