The Tally Room

Nominations closed yesterday in Victoria for the upcoming state election, and there has been a huge surge in the number of candidates running. 896 candidates are running: 351 for the Legislative Council and 545 for the Legislative Assembly. This is an 8.6% increase in the...

Today voters are going to the polls in four local council by-elections in New South Wales. Normally I wouldn't cover council by-elections, but one of these races is quite significant. The City of Newcastle will be electing a new Lord Mayor after the resignation of...

The ACT Electoral Commission has now started the process of drawing new electoral boundaries for the 2016 ACT election, and I have previously written about this impending redistribution. This redistribution is particularly interesting because the number of seats in the ACT Legislative Assembly is increasing...

With the recent death of former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, discussion has already started about the possibility of creating a federal electorate bearing his name. With a federal redistribution due for New South Wales in 2015, there appears to be a real possibility...

Nominations open this Wednesday for the Victorian state election, and nominations close next Friday, 14 November. Today is also the deadline for party registrations for the upcoming state election, and a number of new parties recently achieved registration for Victorian elections. So far, I've identified...

Yesterday's twin by-elections in the Hunter region of New South Wales saw Labor regain two seats it had lost at the 2011 election - seats traditionally considered to be heartland Labor territory. The results were never in significant doubt, but the results in the two...

Charlestown - Primary vote results Candidate Party Votes % Swing Luke Arms Independent 4,696 12.25 +12.25 Marc Sky Independent 1,024 2.67 +2.67 Jane Oakley Greens 5,404 14.09 +5.66 Suellen Wrightson Palmer United 2,433 6.35 +6.35 Jodie Harrison Labor 19,045 49.67 +20.76 Luke Cubis Independent 1,333 3.48 +3.48 Arjay Martin Independent 599 1.56 +1.04 Brian Tucker Christian Democratic 1,753 4.57 +2.39 Veronica Hope Independent 2,056 5.36 +5.36 Charlestown - Two-candidate-preferred vote results Candidate Party Votes % Jane Oakley Greens 6,887 29.58 Jodie Harrison Labor 16,395 70.42 Total votes in final count 23,282 Exhausted 7,212 30.98 Newcastle - Primary vote results Candidate Party Votes % Swing Steve O'Brien Socialist Alliance 1,054 2.61 +1.02 Tim Crakanthorp Labor 14,895 36.95 +6.33 Michael Osborne Greens 8,005 19.86 +5 Jacqueline Haines Independent 2,917 7.24 +7.24 Jennifer Stefanac Palmer United 1,295 3.21 +3.21 Karen Howard Independent 10,610 26.32 -10.36 Milton Caine Christian Democratic 805 2.00 +0.87 Brian Buckley Clare Independent 731 1.81 +1.81 11:09pm - Just...

Gough Whitlam represented the federal electorate of Werriwa from a 1952 by-election until his resignation in 1978. The electorate has a long history of being held by Labor, ever since the 1930s. From 1934 until 2005, the seat was only held by four MPs,...

Clarinda is a Labor seat in south-eastern Melbourne. Clarinda is a new name for the former seat of Clayton, and covers Clarinda, Clayton South, Heatherton and Oakleigh and parts of Bentleigh East, Cheltenham, Clayton, Springvale and Springvale South. Hong Lim has held Clayton since 1996, and is...

Last night's Vasse state by-election in Western Australia was narrowly won by the Liberal Party, after a large surge in support for the Nationals. In 2013, the ALP came second and the Liberal Party easily won with 71.2% of the two-party-preferred vote. Labor did not...