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For today's booth map of the day I've gone to Calwell, the most complex seat of 2025. This booth map shows the primary vote for Labor, Liberal and the two leading independents, and swings for Labor and Liberal. The major parties lost primary votes pretty...

There's been a lot of discussion in the last few days about the merit of Australia's electoral system. In response to some conservative attacks on our preferential system, sometimes implicitly or explicitly suggesting a first-past-the-post system would be somehow more legitimate. In response to that,...

Tasmania flew under the radar in the lead up to the recent election, because of the lack of state polling in Tasmania. It was a "known unknown" to quote Donald Rumsfeld, and I do remember commenting that we didn't know how things were going...

My last few booth maps have been focused on the non-classic races - the Greens in Melbourne, and the teals in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. But a big part of the story was Labor routing the Coalition in traditional urban marginal seats, particularly those...

In 2022 I wrote a blog post where I explained the phenomenon of the AEC needing to do more distribution of preferences before declaring election results, and thus needing longer to complete this process. We now have updated information for 2025, and can see...

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...