The Tally Room

Nominations will close later today for the Western Australian state election (12pm WA time). I have been keeping up a list of candidates who have announced they are running for my election guide. The list features 266 candidates for the lower house, as well as 63...

The summer break is over for the Tally Room, and I'm back with a big new project: the guide to the 2021 Western Australian state election is now complete. This state election is scheduled for Saturday March 13, and will see the first-term McGowan Labor...

Just as the South Australian redistribution finishes, and alongside a state redistribution in New South Wales and two federal redistributions, the starters pistol has been fired in the Victorian state redistribution. The redistribution will be conducted based on the enrolment figures as of November 30,...

The final boundaries for the South Australian state electoral redistribution were released in November, and I have just finished producing my new map of the electoral boundaries, as well as my estimates of the margins. The map is shown below: The boundary changes were slightly less...

It's taken some time, but I have now finalised my map of the New South Wales draft electoral boundaries for the 2023 and 2027 state elections. The boundaries were released in early November and I blogged about them at the time, but it's taken me...

New Zealand voters cast two votes, but (unlike in Australian federal elections) they are cast on a single piece of paper. This means it is possible to determine exactly how many voters who voted for each party on the list voted for a particular...

The New South Wales state redistribution took another step forward today, when the draft boundaries were released. The maps and report can be found here. It will be some time before I finish my own boundaries file, which I will then use to calculate my...