The Tally Room

Apologies for my absence tonight, I was busy and unable to cover the results in the two by-elections held today: Casuarina in the Northern Territory, and Vasse in Western Australia. Polls closed just over two hours ago in Vasse, and it appears that the Liberal...

In recent weeks, the news has been dominated by stories about the desire of the NSW Liberal Party to reform the state electoral funding system in New South Wales - supposedly to reduce the influence of private donations. Today, Mike Baird announced new legislation...

Today I'm launching the Tally Room guide to the 2014 Victorian state election. The guide includes profiles of all eighty-eight Legislative Assembly districts, and all eight Legislative Council regions, including candidates, 2010 election results and descriptions of each electorate's geography, history and the impact of the...

Last weekend, the final results of the New Zealand general election were declared, following the counting of special votes. The results saw a minor shift in the positions of the parties in the Parliament. The governing National Party, who had initially won enough votes to win...

Two Australian states are in the process of electing their local councils for the next four years. Unfortunately due to the large volume of state elections currently taking place, I won't be able to provide any coverage of these elections, but others have produced...

Since the New Zealand election just over one week ago, you may have noticed the blog go quiet, but I haven't slowed down. I have now posted the first 55 electorate profiles for the upcoming Victorian state election, including twenty-three in the last week. Over the...

I've previously blogged about the overall result - which parties gained and lost seats, and the regional variations in the vote. In this post, I will run through each of the key parties, and examine which parties have come out as winners or losers...

This map shows the main parties' performance on both the electorate and party vote in each general electorate. Read on below for a summary of the election result. After a long and sometimes quirky campaign, the New Zealand election produced a mostly 'status quo' result....

This post was written yesterday about Thursday's Scottish independence referendum. Come back later today for a summary of the New Zealand results. There was a lot of interesting implications revealed by the pattern of results in Thursday's Scottish independence referendum. Firstly, the vote was relatively even across...

Final update for Saturday night Party Votes % Swing Electorate seats List seats Total seats National 1,010,464 48.06 0.75 41 20 61 Labour 519,146 24.69 -2.79 27 5 32 Green 210,764 10.02 -1.04 0 13 13 New Zealand First 186,031 8.85 2.26 0 11 11 Conservative 86,616 4.12 1.47 0 0 0 Māori Party 27,074 1.29 -0.14 1 1 2 Internet Mana 26,539 1.26 0.18 0 0 0 ACT 14,510 0.69 -0.38 1 0 1 United Future 4,533 0.22 -0.38 1 0 1 Others 16,994 0.81 0.21 0 0 0 11:48pm - I'm going to check out now, but I'll be back tomorrow with a general update. I don't think we'll see any more changes in...