The Tally Room

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...

Last night's by-election was a thumping victory for the ALP's Yvette D'Ath. The result was largely in line with expectations, with the Liberal National government polling much more poorly than they did at the 2012 election, and due to the circumstances of the by-election. These...

Labor wins Redcliffe by-election. Primary vote results as of 9:34pm - 13/13 booths reporting Candidate Party Votes % Swing Projected Andrew Tyrrell Independent 177 0.74 +0.74 0.74 Sally Vincent Family First 586 2.46 -2.07 2.34 Len Thomas Independent 2,513 10.57 +10.57 10.57 John Marshall Greens 950 3.99 -2.73 3.89 Gabriel Buckley Independent 230 0.97 +0.97 0.97 Yvette D'Ath Labor 10,375 43.63 +12.87 43.98 Talosaga McMahonl Independent 317 1.33 +1.33 1.33 Liz Woollard Independent 279 1.17 +1.17 1.17 Kerri-Anne Dooley Liberal National 8,353 35.13 -14.11 35.15 Total formal votes 23,780 Two-party-preferred results as of 9:34pm - 13/13 booths reporting Candidate Party Votes % Swing Projected Yvette D'Ath Labor 11,748 56.19 +16.29 56.39 Kerri-Anne Dooley Liberal National 9,161 43.81 -16.29 43.61 Total in count 20,909 8:23pm - The final ordinary booth,...

High Court Justice Kenneth Hayne, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, brought out the first part of his judgement in the case of the Western Australian Senate election from 2013. His findings included that: The 1370 voters whose votes were lost were effectively "prevented from...

Nominations closed yesterday for the state by-election in the Queensland seat of Redcliffe, scheduled for 22 February. Eight candidates have nominated. The major party candidates are Yvette D'Ath for the ALP and Kerri-Anne Dooley for the Liberal National Party. D'Ath held the federal seat of...

At the end of election night we have some prepoll votes and all of the regular election-day booths. We're still waiting on postal votes, as well as other pre-poll votes and possibly some special hospital booths. These are the figures as of the end of...