The Tally Room

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...

Good morning, I have been writing this blog post after getting home to wrap my own head around the scale of the count. I expect I will have some issues with the website's accessibility today, so some of this may also be posted over...

Polls have just closed on the east coast. You can discuss the election results here tonight. I won't be liveblogging tonight - I'll be helping with the ABC's election coverage. But I'll be back on Sunday with some written analysis and a podcast. I suspect the website...

Polls have just opened on the east coast in today's federal election. I won't be posting today, but you can discuss the election here. I'll put up another open thread at 6pm. I won't be liveblogging tonight - I'll be helping with the ABC's election coverage....

I don't have another idea for today's blog post, so why don't we use this as a thread for everyone to make their final predictions.

Primary votes for major parties have hit a record low, and they may break that record this weekend. There are also more crossbenchers in the House of Representatives than ever before, with numerous other credible candidates threatening to produce an even larger crossbench in...

Ben is joined by Peter Brent and the ABC's Tom Crowley for the final pre-election episode of the 2025 federal election campaign. We discuss how a hung parliament might play out and the experience of riding Peter Dutton's campaign bus. For our seat of...

This blog post is an update to two blog posts I wrote in 2022, looking at the rate of counting progress on election night and how the primary vote for Labor, the Coalition and the Greens shifts over the course of the night. First up,...

As increasing numbers of Australians have chosen to vote early, we have now reached a point where the country is split roughly into two halves - one half voting before election day, through pre-poll voting, postal voting and remote booths, and the other half...