The Tally Room

Tasmanian voters elected a Liberal government tonight, but a number of seats are still up for grabs. In four out of five electorates, the Liberal Party has gained a third seat. In two additional electorates, another seat is yet to be decided. In some other...

11:17pm - I'm going to leave the results there for the night. A wrap-up of the South Australian results will be up shortly, including some analysis of the key races and the Legislative Council, where it appears that the three incumbent crossbench MLCs have...

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced on Monday that the next New Zealand election will be held on September 20. I'll be providing a full guide to the election, but won't be able to start until the new electoral boundaries are finalised in April. In...

Nominations were declared this afternoon for the Senate by-election in Western Australia. 77 candidates have nominated, an increase from 62 who ran in last September's election. These candidates are running in 33 groups, as well as two ungrouped independents. All but one of the groups is...

Nominations will be announced later today for the remarkable Senate by-election in Western Australia, due to be held on April 5. With final nominations being announced today, candidates and parties will have until midday tomorrow (WA time) to lodge their group voting ticket, which will...

South Australia and Tasmania goes to the polls for their state elections on Saturday. I'll be covering the results from 6:30pm AEDT. This is your opportunity to post your predictions for the election results. You can also read more about each electorate, and join each electorate's discussion...

Over the last week, nominations closed for the South Australian and Tasmanian state elections: South Australia on Monday and Tasmania on Thursday. This is a follow-up to Monday's post when I analysed the list of candidates I had collected at that time. Candidates for all electorates...

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has had a bad couple of months. The September election saw the most complex elections in the history of the Senate, resulting in numerous close results. The razor-sharp election result in Western Australia forced a recount, where it was...

Read more about South Australia's upper house, including candidates, political history and previous election results. South Australia's Legislative Council has one of the smallest quotas for election for any elected body in Australia. At each election, eleven members are elected for an eight-year term, with...

Nominations close later today for the South Australian state election, with nominations closing for the Tasmanian state election later this week. I've produced lists of candidates announced so far for both state elections. You can click through to Google spreadsheets for both state's candidates: South Australia Tasmania Click through...