The Tally Room

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...

One of the developing stories this week has been the continuing increase in pre-poll voting at this year's election. The AEC publishes daily updates with the number of votes cast at each pre-poll centre per day, allowing us to track how many people are...

2016 was a good year for candidates overcoming their party's Senate ballot order. We saw Tasmanian Labor senator Lisa Singh win re-election as one of five Labor senators despite being ranked sixth on her party list, with the candidate ranked above her, John Short,...