The Tally Room

Voters are going to the polls today in the by-election for the southern Adelaide seat of Fisher in the South Australian parliament. The by-election was triggered by the death of independent MP Bob Such. I'll be back with live coverage of the results from 6pm Adelaide...

The last week has been painfully slow as we wait for the final figures from the Victorian state election. At the moment, there are a small number of seats still in contention. Labor holds slim leads in Bentleigh and Frankston, but this is probably enough...

Labor is set to form government, but the results have proven to be extremely complicated. At the moment, Labor is only guaranteed to win 44 out of 88 seats, although they are leading in three other seats. In this post, I run through the...

The current count in the Legislative Council is extremely complicated, with both major parties falling a long way short of a majority. In this post, I run through the latest in each region's count. But first, a summary. Labor is going to find it very...

10:52pm - My last comment is about the Legislative Council. As it currently stands, the Legislative Council will include 14 Liberals and 2 Nationals, 13 Labor MLCs, five Greens, three Shooters and one member each for Family First, Country Alliance and the Democratic Labour...

Booths have just opened in Victoria for today's state election. I'll be back tonight at 6pm with full coverage of the results, and in the meantime you can post your comments in this open thread. I appeared on Radio National's Drive program with Waleed Aly on...

While I've been busy preparing guides to the three major state elections coming up soon, I've been neglecting two by-elections due over the next two months in South Australia. The seats of Fisher and Davenport in southern Adelaide will both be electing new MPs in...

Over the weekend, I have updated every district and region profile to include the final list of candidates. You can also view and download the full list of Legislative Assembly candidates, now including ballot order. In addition, the Group Voting Tickets (GVTs) were released for...

A large swing of 14% to Labor has delivered the party the Lord Mayoralty for the first time in 15 years. Labor lost the lord mayoralty to independent John Tate in 1999. Tate was re-elected in 2004 and 2008, and replaced by Jeff McCloy...

City of Newcastle lord mayoral by-election results Candidate Party Votes % Swing Projected % Aaron Buman Independent 8,852 11.29 +3.97 11.33 David Chapman Independent 3,910 4.99 +4.99 4.99 Rod Holding Independent 1,438 1.83 +1.83 1.83 Brad Luke Independent 18,669 23.82 -19.3 23.45 Nuatali Nelmes Labor 33,107 42.24 +13.86 42.42 Joe Ferguson Australia First 1,236 1.58 +1.58 1.58 Therese Doyle Greens 11,166 14.25 +2.46 14.25 9:57pm - I've just added prepoll figures to the count. 9:50pm - Final post for tonight - I've broken down the figures by each ward of Newcastle council. Labor's vote...