The Tally Room

Ben is joined by local Ryde resident Rose Torossian to discuss the Ryde council election, with a detour into discussion of the merits of directly-elected mayors. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room's supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider...

Western Australia's local councils are elected using the most backwards and least fair voting system in all of Australia, and the WA state government is now proposing some changes that will make it a bit better. The Western Australian state government is proposing a range...

One of the main things that determines the shape of an electoral system is the number of elected members elected for each constituency. It's a key feature that sets the direction of how elections work in each NSW local council. In this post I'm...

Ben is joined by Nick McLaren, lead news reporter for ABC Illawarra, to discuss the council elections for Wollongong and Shoalhaven, along with a brief detour to Shellharbour and Kiama. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room's supporters on Patreon. If you find this...

Following up on Monday's blog post, I've also added information about whether each candidate is an incumbent councillor to my dataset of 1402 candidates running for the 24 most populous councils. I had noticed some councils where large numbers of sitting councillors were retiring. So...

Today I'm joined by Allison Hore from the Inner West Review to discuss the council elections for the City of Sydney and the Inner West Council. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room's supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider...

I've just finished compiling my list of the 1402 candidates running for council or mayor in the 24 most populous councils, the ones featured in my election guide. Unfortunately the NSWEC has not published a single dataset with all of the candidate details, so...

Nominations for the NSW local government elections closed on Wednesday, with the ballot draw held yesterday. The Liberal Party, who had been steadily increasing their presence in local government for the last few decades, has withdrawn from seven councils, while Labor and the Greens have...

When 127 NSW local councils go to the polls over the coming weeks, most voters will just get to vote for their local councillors on one ballot. Some others will also get a ballot for a referendum or poll, but there's also a minority...

Ben is joined by Tina Brown, editor of the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Post, to discuss the council elections in Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai. Ku-ring-gai in particular has been one of the most dramatic councils in Sydney, with a 5-5 deadlock on the council being resolved by the...