The Tally Room

Ben is joined by the University of Queensland's Chris Salisbury and Glenn Kefford to preview next month's Queensland election. 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 subscribe to this...

I launched my guide for the Queensland state election on Tuesday, and as part of that guide I have been compiling a list of candidates running in the election. Over three hundred candidates have been identified so far, although the list shrunk slightly this week...

The Victorian government today announced some rule changes from the end of this weekend which will allow some local government election campaigning which doesn't pose a risk of spreading disease. These changes do make it easier for campaigns to get a message out, but I...

The Queensland state election will be held on October 31, and I have now completed my guide to this election. This guide features profiles of all 93 electorates. Each profile includes the history of that seat, a description of its geography, and maps and tables...

Over a week after the Northern Territory election, there are still four seats where the count is extremely close. I thought I might run through these races quickly. These four seats are Araluen, Barkly, Blain and Namatjira. Labor has won thirteen seats (including Arnhem and Fong...

It's taken me a bit longer than I originally planned, but I've now created a digital map file for the South Australian state redistribution, for the election due in March 2022. This is a draft - the final map is due towards the end...

The Australian Electoral Commission released the final data from the Eden-Monaro by-election earlier this week. This data breaks down the two-party-preferred preference flows between Labor and Liberal based on the primary vote of the voter. This data allows us to look at how voters...

We expected election day to be a smaller factor in the Northern Territory election, and now we have the data to back it up. Most, if not all, votes from election day have now been counted, along with most pre-poll votes. We are still waiting...