The Tally Room

Ben is joined by Leo Puglisi from 6 News to analyse the results of the NSW local government elections. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. You can listen to an ad-free...

This blog post includes a summary of the state of the race for the 27 councils with a population of 95,000 or more. The first few were also posted in the live blog overnight but for convenience I've included them here again. I have a...

12:20 - Okay I'm going to stop here, and do another call of the board in the morning. Central Coast - 12:19 - It looks like Labor has lost their majority, and possibly there will be a clear conservative majority. The conservative independents who benefited from...

Polls have opened for election day for the NSW local government elections. I won't be posting any analysis until after polls close at 6pm, but you can post your thoughts here.

The Australian Electoral Commission today announced the final decisions on boundaries for the NSW federal redistribution. As with the Victorian and Western Australian announcements last week, the AEC is yet to publish maps, digital boundary files or SA1 data. With the council election coming...

Last week I wrote an analysis piece about the different shape of ballot papers in different parts of New South Wales - the urban areas and some large rural councils have above-the-line voting, small rural councils have a single column of ungrouped candidates, and...

If a council in New South Wales wants to change the number of councillors who sit on that council, they need to hold a referendum, with voters making the final decision. In 2024, four councils are holding referendums on reducing the size of their council....

Most candidates running in the NSW council elections are independents, or belong to the three big urban parties. Over 58% of candidates running for the council election are either independent or unaffiliated. 14% of candidates were nominated by the ALP, 9.9% by the Greens, and...

We're now less than two months out from the Queensland state election, and the ACT election. So it seemed about the right time to unlock those election guides for everyone to read. But while that means two less exclusive benefits for Patreon donors, I'm launching...

The Australian Electoral Commission yesterday announced the final decision for the federal redistributions in Victoria and Western Australia. Unfortunately the AEC hasn't yet published the maps, digital boundary files or data matching each SA1 to each electorate. While it may be possible to estimate these,...