The Tally Room

These figures are no longer being updated. Primary vote results as of 8:45pm - 40/40 booths reporting Candidate Party Votes % Swing Projected Timothy Lawrence Stable Population Party 541 0.87 +0.68 0.89 Geoff Ebbs Greens 6,434 10.37 +0.18 9.93 Christopher Williams Family First 598 0.96 +0.22 0.95 Karel Boele Independent 419 0.68 +0.68 0.68 Anthony Ackroyd Bullet Train 481 0.77 +0.77 0.77 Anne Reid Secular Party 352 0.57 +0.57 0.57 Terri Butler Labor 24,291 39.14 -1.23 38.18 Melanie Thomas Pirate Party 1,000 1.61 +1.61 1.61 Travis Windsor Independent 544 0.88 +0.88 0.88 Ray Sawyer Katter's Australian Party 884 1.42 +0.74 1.47 Bill Glasson Liberal National 26,521 42.73 +0.51 44.14 Total formal votes 62,065 Two-party-preferred results as of 8:45pm - 40/40...

This morning saw remarkable events in South Australian politics, involving a prominent federal politician launching an aborted attempt to enter state politics, and a threat from a sitting Premier to resign weeks out from an election. Don Farrell, a prominent Labor senator and one of...

This is a short post to let readers know that the guide to the South Australian election is complete. In addition to profiles of all 47 electorates, I have written up sections on South Australian political history, the last redistribution, the key seats and the...

With nominations declared on Friday, eleven candidates are off and running for the Griffith by-election on 8 February. The federal seat was vacated by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd following his party's defeat at the 2013 election. These eleven candidates include candidates from Labor, the Liberal...

So after a week of speculation and rumour, Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings acted today to move Tasmania towards the next state election. Giddings met with the Governor this morning, and then proceeded to sack the two Greens ministers from her cabinet and announce an election...

Following on from recent speculation about a possible snap election to be called in Tasmania, the Tally Room guide to the next Tasmanian state election is now up on the website. Tasmania last went to the polls in March 2010, and the next election was expected to...

After the Christmas break, the Tally Room is back - and starting the new year by covering the South Australian state election, to be held in March. I have started work on the Tally Room guide to the SA election, with profiles of sixteen key electorates...

Last Thursday, the first round of draft boundaries for the next New Zealand election was released to the public. After extensive work, I have now produced a Google Earth map of the boundaries, as well as estimates of the vote for each party in the...

LNP-turned-independent Queensland MP Scott Driscoll resigned from Parliament earlier this week, facing the threat of expulsion from the Parliament. His seat of Redcliffe will go to the polls in early 2014 - meaning we now have two expected by-elections due in early 2014 in Brisbane...

As I reported earlier this year, Queensland is progressing with a plan to de-amalgamate four former local council areas from the super-councils created in 2007-8. Voters in these four areas voted in favour of de-amalgamating in March 2013. All four of these council areas elected new...