The Tally Room

Ben spoke to Paddy Manning from the Monthly and Stewart Jackson from the University of Sydney about the results of Saturday's Victorian state election, including a focus on the Greens' performance and preferences in the upper house. You can subscribe to this podcast using this RSS...

The Legislative Council result at the moment looks like a big victory for Labor and the small parties, and a bad result for the Greens and the Coalition, but the impact of late counting and below the line votes is yet to be made...

Voters in Victoria will be voting today in their state election - except, that is, for those who have already voted, in record numbers. As of Thursday night, 1,184,095 early votes had been cast. This is already well ahead of 2014, when a total of...

In this week's podcast Ben is joined by Tom Clement from Geeklections and Tim Colebatch. We discussed the Victorian upper house race in depth, followed by a summary of the Victorian state election campaign. Tom's analysis of the group voting tickets Ben's blog about the...

Today is one year since the announcement of the result in the marriage law postal survey, and I have a special podcast episode focusing on that process. I interviewed Simon Copland and Dr Liz Allen on Tuesday at a conference about the anniversary at the...

The group voting tickets were released on Sunday, showing how each party will direct its preferences for votes cast above-the-line in each region for the Victorian Legislative Council. For those still catching up, this is basically the same system used for the Senate up to...

Nominations closed today for the Victorian state election. In this post I'll run through the numbers on how many people are running, and from what parties, and where. Check out this Google spreadsheet with a list of all 507 lower house candidates. Thanks to Nick Casmirri...