The Tally Room

Polls have just opened across New South Wales for the 2015 state election. I don't have a lot to say, but please use this post as an open thread to discuss the election.

In addition to the New South Wales state election, on Saturday voters in the New Zealand electorate will be voting for a replacement for National MP Mike Sabin, who resigned in January. Northland has been traditionally considered safe for the National Party, but the seat...

We're now two days away from election day this Saturday. Over the next two days I will be doing a number of radio interviews that you might be interested in tuning in for. Tomorrow morning I will be joining ABC Illawarra's breakfast show at 7:15am to...

With five days to go until election day, you can now read through the entirety of the Tally Room guide to the NSW state election. Profiles of all 93 seats are now available, including final lists of candidates. Most seats now feature comment threads discussing...

Last night I summarised the numbers of candidates nominated by party in the upcoming NSW election after nominations closed yesterday. Following up on that post, I've analysed the number of men and women running for each party, and what impact the election may have on...

Nominations closed earlier today, with a record number of candidates nominating for the Legislative Council, and the largest number of candidates running for the Legislative Assembly since 2003. Four parties nominated in all ninety-three lower house seats: Labor, the Greens, the Christian Democratic Party and...

This is an open thread for the NSW election, where you can discuss the election at large. Comment threads are open for each individual seat to discuss that local race. We're now in the third-last week of the NSW state election campaign. We saw one poll...

Before the NSW election on 28 March, we have another election coming up this Saturday. Voters in Gippsland South in Victoria will be voting in a state by-election to replace Peter Ryan, the former leader of the Nationals and Deputy Premier in the last government. The...

After a brief intermission, this blog is back from today to cover this month's New South Wales state election. Unfortunately due to the tight timeframes around the New Zealand, Victorian and Queensland elections I was delayed in completing my NSW guide. I have now...

One of the biggest stories of the recent Queensland state election was the huge shift in preference flows towards Labor, with a big drop in the exhaustion rate across the state. Opinion polling was quite accurate in predicting primary votes, but the method of distributing...