The Tally Room

The ACT is currently redrawing its electoral boundaries for the local Legislative Assembly, and as previously discussed there are not a lot of options for how the boundaries can be drawn. The first round of submissions have now closed, with ten individuals and five organisations...

I've defined this area to cover parts of the state which don't neatly fit into any of the other categories. I've included the four seats in the Illawarra area, plus Bega, South Coast, Goulburn and Monaro. I've identified four out of the eight seats in...

Today is the third of day of voting in the NSW state election, with pre-poll booths opening around the state. I dropped in to the biggest pre-poll booth at Sydney Town Hall on Monday morning to collect all of the how-to-votes that were available, and...

This area covers ten electorates, stretching from two seats in the New England region down to Murray and Albury on the Victorian border. It's quite possibly the most interesting region in the election. On a two-party-preferred basis, not a single one of these seats is...

When I was analysing the list of candidates running in the state election yesterday, I was a bit surprised by which minor parties were running the largest number of Legislative Assembly candidates. Three parties outside of Labor, Greens and the Coalition ran over 40 candidates:...

Nominations closed yesterday for the 2019 NSW state election, with an increase in lower house candidates but a decrease in upper house candidates compared to the 2015 election. 568 candidates nominated for the Legislative Assembly. This is an increase from 540 in 2015 and 498...

At the upcoming NSW state election, we should expect more people than ever before to cast their votes early, while others will use online voting, making ordinary election-day voting a relatively smaller proportion of the total vote. This story is not entirely unique to New...