The Tally Room

Amongst many other redistributions, the Northern Territory is redrawing the boundaries of the 25 electorates for the territory's Legislative Assembly. The redistribution map was released yesterday. I'm working on my map of the new electorates, and should have it finished by Monday. In short, the town of...

The Australian Electoral Commission is currently undertaking federal redistributions in New South Wales (which is losing one seat), Western Australia (which is gaining one seat) and the ACT (which should see minor changes on the border between the two seats. Since I last wrote about...

Last month, Nationals MLC Ben Franklin announced that he would seek a parliamentary inquiry into the size of the western NSW electorates of Barwon and Murray, which cover a majority of the New South Wales land mass. Today, according to a tweet from the...

Ireland voted on Friday in a referendum on allowing same-sex marriage, and it passed overwhelmingly. Since I have previously produced a Google map of Ireland's parliamentary constituencies (download it here), I thought I would put together a quick map showing the shape of the vote by...

Two weeks ago I wrote a piece for the Guardian putting the case for reform to the system of Senate group voting tickets, in response to a number of pieces arguing against reform on the basis of who is for the reform, or who...

8:27am - Polls have now closed in the UK election, and over the course of the day we will be getting results from each constituency. I won't be providing a constant thread of updates but will occasionally post updates through the day. The main exit poll...

Voters in the United Kingdom will be voting tomorrow (Thursday 7 May) to elect a new House of Commons - expected to be the second hung parliament in a row. The first-past-the-post system used for the House of Commons, which in the past has been...

Last year, I wrote up an analysis of the prospects for the current redistribution of federal electorates in NSW. In late April, the final population data, provided to well below the suburb level, was released. In addition to updated population figures as of the end of...

Voters on Saturday voted in three out of fifteen Tasmanian Legislative Council electorates, and in all three they re-elected their incumbent MLCs. In the north-eastern seat of Windermere, conservative independent Ivan Dean saw off three centre-left rivals, including endorsed Labor and Greens candidates. In the north-western...

7:38pm - Most booths have now reported in all three seats, and in Derwent and Mersey the result seems pretty clear. In Windermere, Ivan Dean is sitting on 43.9%, ahead of Labor's Houston on 28.7%. That's probably enough for Dean to win. 6:53pm - I...