The Tally Room

I've had much less time than I would have liked to blog during the campaign, and have used my little spare time to update the lists of candidates for each House of Representatives seat. It seems appropriate now to open a new thread for commenters...

While the campaign has been fiercely fought, there hasn't seemed to be much for myself to add in terms of blog posts on the front page. The conversation has been continuing fiercely on the previous election thread and on each seat's discussions. Almost 2500 comments...

The final list of candidates was released on Friday. A record number of candidates are running in both houses of Parliament - in line with the record number of parties registering at the election. A total of 1188 candidates are running for the House of...

There have been a ridiculous number of changes to the candidate list, so much that I lost track of it last week. I have stopped updated the Google Drive spreadsheet, and instead I have uploaded an Excel spreadsheet with all the candidates listed in a...

This morning brought the news that former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie will be running for the ALP in the marginal LNP seat of Forde, on the southern outskirts of Brisbane. Discussion has already begun on the Forde page about his prospects in the seat, and...

With the writs being issued yesterday, we have the final list of political parties registered for the election. Fifty-four autonomous parties have been registered - which is a significant record, compared to a previous record of 40 in 1998, and only 25 parties running in...

After yesterday's election call we saw two new national polls emerge from Newspoll and Reachtel. Both had the Coalition on 52% two-party-preferred and Labor on 48%, which would translate into a slim victory for the Coalition. It certainly indicates a close race. The poll is...

Kevin Rudd is on his way to the Governor-General's residence in Canberra where he is expected to call the election. The election is expected to be called for September 7, but a six-week campaign could theoretically be called for September 14. Please feel free to comment...

The volume of comments has exploded on this blog in recent times. In July over 1000 comments were posted - this is only the second time I've received more than 1000 legitimate comments in a month. With this I have experienced more occasions where I've...

There has been a fair amount of comments on individual seat profiles that deal more generally with the federal election generally rather than that specific electorate. If you are commenting on an individual seat or on one particular region please continue, but general discussion about...