The Tally Room

If you're voting in the Victorian state election, you should vote below the line on your Legislative Council ballot paper. While the party how-to-votes will undoubtedly tell you to vote above the line, there is absolutely no reason why you need to do that. Voting...

I feel like I've been banging on about group voting tickets for a long time, but with the upcoming Victorian election again featuring this anti-democratic feature for its upper house elections, I thought I needed to summarise some of the worst problems with this...

I last updated my Victorian state election candidate list at the start of October, so it seemed about time for another update, about two weeks out from nominations closing. You can see the full list here, and candidate lists including websites have been posted in...

Ben is joined by Michael Kabuni to wrap up this year's Papua New Guinea election. We talk about levels of violence and election disruption, the highest number of seats for a single party for 40 years, and the formation of the new government. This podcast...

South Australian voters are currently going to the polls to elect their local councillors for the next four years. Voting takes place by mail, with polls closing on November 10. Incidentally this means South Australian council elections should continue to closely mirror Tasmania's council...

Ben is joined by Tasmanian psephologist Kevin Bonham to discuss the upcoming Tasmanian council elections - the electoral systems, the emergence of local tickets, and they then dive into the specific campaigns for Hobart City Council and Clarence City Council. Check out Kevin's guides to...

The NSW Labor conference was held over the weekend, and as part of the conference there was a ballot to choose the ticket for the NSW Legislative Council at next March's election. Before this result, I didn't really know how this sort of thing worked....

There's a by-election taking place today in the West ward of Ryde council in the northern suburbs of Sydney. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of former Labor mayor and newly elected Bennelong MP Jerome Laxale, who quit to focus his efforts on...

Earlier today it was announced that Greens MP Jamie Parker is retiring from his seat of Balmain at next March's state election. This is an unusual event because the Greens have never had an MP holding a single-member electorate who has retired of their own...