The Tally Room

The Australian federal election will be held at some point in the first half of 2025, and I have now completed my guide to all 150 electorates. I published guides for 50 seats in mid-2023, but electorates in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia...

There will be a by-election for the Victorian state seat of Prahran coming up soon, likely at the start of 2025. Sam Hibbins won the seat for the Greens in 2014, and again in 2018 and 2022. He quit the party earlier this month after...

Ben is joined by Leo Puglisi from 6 News and Chris Eddy from Local Government News Roundup to wrap up the Victorian council elections. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. You...

Following the recent conclusion of the Victorian council elections, there was a call yesterday from the Greens for an inquiry into the conduct of the recent council election. These sorts of inquiries are standard for federal elections, and for state elections in a number of...

8:41 - We now have the two-party-preferred from every election day booth and I'm led to believe that's all we'll get tonight. Labor's 2PP is now sitting on 60.6%. This compares to 47.5% on the election day vote in 2022, a swing of 13.1%....

For this post, I am looking at how the parties have done in the Victorian council elections, and I run through a quick summary of how each council went. As of the time of writing, all but three of the wards I am tracking have...

We are now coming towards the end of the Victorian council elections. For the councils I have been covering, final primary votes have been recorded for all wards, and in the vast majority the winners have been determined and preferences distributed. For this post I...

The process of vote-counting for the Victorian council elections started last Saturday, and while a lot of votes have been counted, absolutely none of them have been officially published for the public on the VEC's website. The process commenced last Saturday, and in the early...

The Electoral Matters Committee of the Victorian parliament has launched an inquiry into the structure of the Legislative Council. The inquiry is not seeking submissions on group voting tickets, but the inquiry is related to the push to abolish GVTs because such a change would...

Ben is joined by Alexis Pink from ZZZ to discuss the LNP coming to power in Queensland. We discuss the divide between north and south, the performances of the minor parties and how this new LNP government might differ from the last LNP government. This...