The Tally Room

Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU parties have gained the largest swings towards them at the 2013 German federal election, with minor parties generally losing ground. The CDU/CSU gained a large 7.8% swing towards them, with the centre-left Social Democrats gaining a smaller 2.7% swing. The three minor...

Just a quick post to let people know that the next major election will be the German federal election, to be held this Sunday 22 September. Due to the Australian federal election, I haven't had time to engage in this campaign, but polling suggests a...

After an election where the vast majority of candidates running were men, the male-dominated Coalition won seats, and today a new cabinet will be sworn in with only one woman, it may be surprising to know that the number of women in the new...

Clive Palmer's push to take the Sunshine Coast seat of Fairfax off the Liberal National Party looked like it had been successful on election night, but a very poor performance on special votes has Palmer's lead falling so fast that it is likely to...

There are four seats I am now tracking where I don't think it's entirely bedded down: McEwen, Fairfax, Indi and Parramatta. UPDATE: Now covered all four key seats. McEwen Labor MP Rob Mitchell currently leads by 97 votes, over the Liberal Party's Donna Petrovich. Vote type ALP % LIB % To...

As the Australian Labor Party prepares to be the first political party in Australia to allow its membership to directly elect its leader, the NZ Labour Party has just chosen its new leader: its first elected directly using a similar model to the ALP. David...

Indi has been the seat that has been the most interesting seat during the first week of counting. Cathy McGowan has led for most of the week, but was on track to fall behind before an additional 1003 votes that had not been correctly...

Parramatta in Western Sydney currently is sitting as the second-most-marginal seat in the country. Labor MP Julie Owens is leading by 482 votes: a 50.32% margin. Click here to read my pre-election profile of Parramatta. Owens started out leading by over 1000 votes, but has not...

As it stands, there are still a bunch of seats left outstanding. Seven seats are on margins of less than 50.6%, and I'll run through a couple of key races here: Apart from these seven seats, the Coalition holds 87 seats, the ALP holds 53 seats,...

On Thursday, we saw former Labor Senate leader Stephen Conroy come out attacking the new Labor leadership rules pushed through by Kevin Rudd during his very brief second stint as Prime Minister. He said the Coalition are "getting away with murder" while Labor's leadership remains...