The Tally Room

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...

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...