The Tally Room

The final electoral boundaries for the next Western Australian state election were released on Friday morning. The changes mostly replicated the draft boundaries released in July, although there were a few small changes, and some dramatic changes to two seats were mostly reversed. In this...

Queensland's local councils will be up for election next March. Numerous Queensland councils, including the urban councils of the south-east, use single-member wards (called "divisions" in Queensland). As such, they are sometimes due for redistribution. This term, only four councils were up for review, none...

The federal parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters yesterday released their report into the 2022 federal election. I won't try to summarise every point covered - the report covers matters to do with election funding and Indigenous enrolment. But I wanted to mention a few...

Ben is joined by Dr Simon Hix from the European University Institute to discuss a paper he co-wrote with John Carey about finding the Electoral Sweet Spot: how low-magnitude proportional representation systems tend to combine the best of majoritarian and proportional systems. This podcast is...

There are five elections scheduled for 2024 that I'm planning to write guides for, and today I'm ready to unveil the third one of them. The ACT election will be held on October 18, just one week before Queensland. The Assembly's electorates have been redrawn, and...

9:50 - So we don't really have a valid 2CP between Labor and Liberal, so it's a bit hard to say what's going on. But while Labor at the moment is on track for a primary vote swing of 10-11%, the Liberal vote is...

Federal redistributions are currently underway in three states. While the main focus is on the boundaries of the electorates, and the electoral implications of those boundaries, it's worth also drawing some attention to the question of what we name those electorates. Australia's federal boundaries are...

Shane Easson has been drawing up redistribution submissions for the Australian Labor Party since 1984. This year he's not doing the Labor submission for New South Wales, although he is working on those in some other states, and he came on the podcast to...

The suggestions from members of the public, MPs and political parties for the current redistribution of federal electoral boundaries in New South Wales were released yesterday. Unfortunately I was a bit preoccupied on my way back from Malaysia so it's taken some time to...