The Tally Room

The Australian Electoral Commission is publishing daily statistics on the number of postal vote applications (PVAs) received, and the number of votes cast at pre-poll centres. After six weeks of the campaign, and one week of pre-poll, we now have a sense of the...

Nominations were declared at midday yesterday, and I've just finished updating the candidate lists for each seat and the eight Senate races. I wrote speculatively about the number of candidate nominations on Thursday in the Guardian. At the time of writing, 772 House of Representatives...

I've written a piece for the Guardian going through the numbers of candidates running at this point. Since I wrote that piece yesterday afternoon, I've identified nineteen more candidates: The Nationals candidate for Hunter The Labor candidate for Moore And seventeen (!) Liberal Democrats lower house...

Yesterday I posted a quick summary of the NSW government's council amalgamation announcement. Today I wanted to run through the partisan impact of the councils being created, and the impacts on the next NSW council elections. In December, I assessed the proposed council amalgamations by calculating...

As a further taste of the seat guides being posted now on the Tally Room (53 and counting), I thought I'd run through another three interesting seats. Today these three seats are all seats with above-average Greens votes, but also with a wide variation...