The Tally Room

Last Friday, embattled former LNP minister Chris Davis resigned his seat of Stafford in the Queensland state parliament. Davis had served as Assistant Minister for Health for the last two years, but had come into conflict with the Premier and senior ministers over a number...

I'm well on my way to preparing the maps of New Zealand's electorates for the guide to the September election - yesterday I finished half of the general electorates (32 out of 64, plus 7 Maori seats). The most interesting electorate I've worked on is the seat...

The federal Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters released its interim report yesterday, which covered recommendations for how to reform the Senate voting system. The Senate voting system has come under criticism for the system of group voting tickets producing bizarre results and creating very close races, and...

Unfortunately I wasn't able to follow results last night for the two Tasmanian Legislative Council seats that went to the polls yesterday. Tasmania's upper house never faces the polls all at once - its fifteen seats go to the polls over a six year...

The federal Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters (JSCEM) held hearings yesterday in Canberra, where representatives from five political parties presented evidence on how to reform the Senate voting system, following previous hearings from experts and officials over the last three months. Yesterday's appearances, as well...

The next Australian election will take place Saturday week, with two Tasmanian upper house electorates electing representatives for the next six years. I've already written profiles of both electorates, featuring the results of the 2008 election and the history of each electorate. I've now updated...

In the lead-up to the New Zealand election in September, the final map of electoral boundaries was released last Thursday. The changes are relatively minor in most seats, although a large number of electorates saw some change in comparison to the draft boundaries. Back in...

After the closeness of the 2013 election, we were all ready for a close contest in 2014, but that hasn't eventuated. At the end of election night, the ALP's Louise Pratt looked like she had a chance of overtaking the Liberal Party's Linda Reynolds...

8:09 - And that's it for tonight. Short and sweet election night. 8:07 - One last point to raise before finishing this liveblog. If you assume that the Greens vote mainly flowed to Labor, it seems that roughly half of the AEU candidate's vote flowed...

One of the smallest Australian elections will be coming up this Saturday, April 12, in the Northern Territory electorate of Blain. Blain covers the southern suburbs of Palmerston, the major town that lays outside of Darwin. The seat was held since the 1999 by-election by...