The Tally Room

I've got yet another chapter in the long story of Australians' changing habits in voting. With the final results of the Tasmanian state election, we can look at the Tasmanian trend. The last Tasmanian state election was held in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Prior to the Tasmanian election I produced a blog post mapping out the relative strength of candidates within the same party ticket in some electorates at the 2021 election. The maps showed which of a party's candidates topped the vote for that party in...

One feature of the recent Tasmanian state election result was a surprisingly small number of candidates reaching a quota on primary votes, despite the quota being lower than any election in the last quarter century. Just four candidates reached a quota: the leaders of the...

It's no surprise that the informal rate increased at the recent Tasmanian state election, but I wanted to explore how high the rate went, and what might explain it. Tasmania has a rule that voters must number as many boxes as there are seats to...

This is a message for the state of Queensland, who've now done this at the last two rounds of council elections in 2020 and 2024. For each council election, two state by-elections were held at the same time: for Bundamba and Currumbin in 2020, and...

When I was analysing the 2020 Brisbane City election results at the start of the year, I noticed an inconsistency. I've now identified that the same issue is true of the 2024 results, and I wanted to clarify what is going on. This issue only...

Now that we have the final results for the Brisbane City Council election, we can assess how people chose to cast their votes, and how that fits into the historical trend. A slow decline in election-day voting accelerated dramatically in 2020, with the election held...

9:06 - I'm going to wrap up here. This was a very comfortable Liberal victory, with a primary vote currently sitting on 62.7%. 8:28 - They have finished counting the primary votes for all election-day and pre-poll booths, and the Liberal Party is on 62.6%...

Nominations have been declared for three Tasmanian Legislative Council elections, with polling day on May 4. Tasmania's upper house is never fully dissolved, with two or three of the fifteen electorates up for election each year over a six-year cycle. This year, the seat of Hobart...

Now that we have the final voting figures for the City of Brisbane, it was possible to update the analysis of preference flows and the impact of optional preferential voting (OPV) that I published prior to the election. Immediately after the election, it became clear...