The Tally Room

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...

Last night's election result was nothing like the wipe-out expected when the LNP was on 55-56% of the two-party-preferred vote back in September, but it's still reasonably clear. Overall the scale of the defeat looks similar to Labor's victory in 52 seats in 2020....

11:10 - That list of seats has changed a bit since I started on this bit of analysis 40 minutes ago, and the last seat is South Brisbane. The gap between the ALP and LNP has shrunk as the pre-poll votes have reported. Greens MP Amy...

Voting closed last night for the Victorian local government elections. Ballot boxes will be opened today and votes will start to be counted. I believe the deadline for declaring results is November 15, and we may not get any official figures before the declaration. I...