The Tally Room

7:25pm - The Liberal Party looks set to retain both seats. At the moment they are on 47.7% in Polwarth, which should easily be enough. In South-West Coast they are on 36%, but with ex-Labor candidate Roy Reekie second on 17.7% ahead of the...

The by-election for Joe Hockey's seat of North Sydney has been scheduled for Saturday 5 December. I've now posted the guide to the by-election, which is likely to see Liberal candidate Trent Zimmerman elected to finish Hockey's term. Read more

I've now completed the Google Earth map of the draft federal electoral boundaries for New South Wales. Download the map here. I've also produced a fusion table combining the map with the notional estimates of the two-party-preferred margin and primary votes for Labor, Coalition, Greens and others...

I've missed a story which has been quietly bubbling along for the last few months which could see a bill introduced by the opposition Liberal National Party passed, increasing the electoral bias in favour of large rural seats in the Queensland parliament. There are...

The NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has today released its report into the "Fit for the Future" process, which has been the program whereby the NSW Government has been pushing for wide-scale council amalgamations across New South Wales. Despite the rhetoric, the...

We're expecting two big bits of news today. The Canadian election results will be flowing in over the next few hours. Polls close at 10am AEDT in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the final ridings in British Columbia will close at 1pm AEDT. We're also expecting the...

I've been getting a bunch of questions about the relative strength of parties in the proposed new federal electorates which were released by the AEC yesterday. William Bowe at Poll Bludger released notional two-party-preferred figures yesterday, and my calculations are pretty close to his, but...

There's been a lot of electoral news this morning! I'll try to run through it all really quickly. I'll be putting together the new NSW electoral map over the next week and I'll try to find some time to cover the other issues. NSW redistribution The Australian...

Western Australia is currently undergoing regular council elections. It's taken a while to pull together, but I've now completed an updated ward map for these elections. You can download the 2013 and 2015 ward maps from the maps page. It's quite a difficult task as there's...

The Northern Territory has been undergoing a redistribution for the 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly, and the final boundaries were released last week. Quite substantial changes were made compared to the draft boundaries - it was basically an entirely new map. A number of...