The Tally Room

For my next regional focus I decided to split regional New South Wales into two areas: north and south. Today I'll be looking at the seven seats in southern NSW, plus the three seats in the ACT. Labor holds six of these seats, the Liberal...

Clive Palmer's United Australia Party is running a big campaign in this federal election, with a big-budget national advertising campaign. It's hard to know how well they will perform, but it'd be silly to ignore a party with such a big campaign. In one sense...

We've now got one more week before election day and a few people have been asking me for advice about how to plan out their preferences in the Senate. There are a few dozen columns on the Senate ballot in the bigger states, and even...

There are 25 federal electorates in the Melbourne metropolitan area. Labor won 16 of these seats in 2016, with the Liberal Party winning eight and the Greens winning one. There are nine seats I wanted to zoom in on in today's post, with the map...

There are 29 federal electorates in the greater Sydney region (including the Central Coast and Blue Mountains) - it's the most populous region in Australia. The region contains sixteen Labor seats, twelve Liberal seats and one independent seat. I've identified seven seats that I think are...

Western Australia has sixteen seats in the House of Representatives, and these seats strongly favour the Liberal Party. Labor holds five seats, while the Liberal Party holds the other eleven. The Liberal Party has dominated Western Australia at federal elections since Kim Beazley's departure from...

19There are twenty seats in south-east Queensland, stretching from the Gold Coast in the south to the Sunshine Coast in the north. South-East Queensland currently contains thirteen Liberal National Party (LNP) seats and seven Labor seats. Brisbane proper is dominated by Labor, with five Labor...