The Tally Room

The count in the Legislative Assembly is now largely complete. As of late Thursday evening, the Electoral Commission had "pushed the button" and finished the count in 41 out of 93 seats, including the key seats of Lismore (Nationals beat Greens), East Hills (Liberal...

Goulburn, on paper, was a very safe Liberal seat prior to the recent election, with Liberal MP Pru Goward holding the seat by a 26.8% margin. This masked a lot of change in the area. Goulburn shifted significantly west, taking in Yass and other areas...

Oatley was the closest seat at the last election. Liberal candidate Mark Coure defeated Labor MP Kevin Greene by 440 votes, or 0.5%. Coure's hold on the seat was strengthened by the redistribution, which saw his margin increase to 3.8%. Despite the favourable redistribution, Oatley's...

Last Friday, I published a breakdown of the election result in the key seat of Lismore in the far north of New South Wales. The seat of Ballina shares a lot of similarities with its neighbour. In both cases, the Greens outpolled Labor in 2011,...

East Hills was one of the last seats the Liberal Party gained off Labor in 2011, with Liberal candidate Glenn Brookes winning the seat off Labor's Alan Ashton by less than 500 votes. The recent redistribution was unfavourable to Brookes, cutting his margin from 0.6%...

The Entrance is a marginal seat on the Central Coast. It was won in 2011 by the Liberal Party's Chris Spence. He was caught up in an ICAC investigation in 2014 and stepped down from the Liberal Party, and subsequently retired at the 2015 election. The...

Gosford is the closest race in the New South Wales state election. At the time of writing, Labor's Kathy Smith leads Liberal MP Chris Holstein by 69 votes, and it appears that Labor's lead is enough to hold on the small numbers of remaining...

Earlier this week, while most of us were distracted by the New South Wales election results, the ACT Electoral Commission released draft boundaries for the next election. Electoral boundaries are reviewed after every election, but most changes have been minor since the ACT's electorates were...

This will be the last 'late counting' post. At this point, it seems possible to call the results in Lismore, Gosford and The Entrance, in addition to East Hills which has seemed clear for a couple of days. Labor has narrowly gained Gosford and The...

Over the next few days I will be posting about a number of the most interesting seats in the NSW election, including a breakdown of the seat's results by sub-area, and maps of booth results. The first seat today is Lismore. Lismore has been the most...