The Tally Room

How should we be naming our federal seats?

Ben Raue - April 11, 2018

Australian federal electorates follow a fairly unique naming convention. Australian state seats are usually named after geographic locations, which is also common for national electorates in Canada, the UK and New Zealand, while electoral districts in the United States are generally given numerical names. The...

ACT and Victorian redistributions – here are the maps

Ben Raue - April 10, 2018

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I've finished making Google Earth maps for the draft federal boundaries for Victoria and the ACT, and they are now available for download: ACT 2019 Victoria 2019 I've also turned them into interactive maps below the fold, which show the 2016 and 2019 boundaries (you...

ACT and VIC redistributions live

Ben Raue - April 6, 2018

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3:01 - This is my last comment for now. I'll be working on the boundary map over the weekend and plan to return by Monday with some more analysis. I just wanted to zoom out to the big picture. Two extra seats were created today,...

This week’s guides – April 5

Ben Raue - April 5, 2018

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Since last week's post, I have published seven more guides. This includes the next five most marginal federal seats, as well as one donor request each for the Victorian and NSW state elections. The federal seats are: Forde Flynn Robertson Banks Petrie I've also published guides...

Election guide update – some long weekend reading

Ben Raue - March 29, 2018

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As flagged earlier this week, I've now started work on the guides to the next federal election, along with the upcoming state elections in New South Wales and Victoria. I threw it open to those people donating to my Patreon to nominate seats they wished...

You tell me which seats to profile…

Ben Raue - March 27, 2018

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Now that the elections of March are mostly concluded, I've shifted my focus to my guides to the federal election and the state elections in Victoria and New South Wales. There won't be many elections in the next few months, so the front page of...

Tasmanian upper house guides posted

Ben Raue - March 26, 2018

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Tasmania's Legislative Council is elected by a unique voting system, with a small proportion of the fifteen seats up for election every year, with the entire state voting over the course of a six-year cycle. This voting system tends to favour local independents over the...

What happened to SA Best?

Ben Raue - March 18, 2018

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This is quite a long analysis of the SA Best performance at yesterday's state election. If you stick with it I've included a chart comparing SA Best to the Nick Xenophon Team in 2016, and at the end there's a map! Enjoy. Expectations were very...

SA election – Liberals win government in status quo result

Ben Raue - March 18, 2018

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There's been a lot of chatter about SA Best and their impact on the SA election, and I will return to them in my next post, but I wanted to focus here on the actual result. The overall result saw a change of government,...

Batman 2018 – the map tells the story

Ben Raue - March 17, 2018

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I love a good electoral map, that can tell a story about how a seat's population votes in different ways and how the balance of those communities decides who wins an election. Batman has produced a fascinating map at recent elections, with the Greens...