The Tally Room

There hasn't been much in the way of updates to the blog since finishing the guide at the beginning of June. I've been regularly updating lists of candidates, and I've also been working on a few Google Earth electoral map layers, including those covering New...

Yesterday I went through and added a lot more candidates to the electorate profiles, and the same candidates were added to the online candidates spreadsheet. The total number for the House of Representatives is now up to 729. The largest surge was thanks to an increase...

Speculation is intensifying about the possibility of an August election being called in the next week or two. Next Monday is the deadline to call an election for August 24, and a week later will be the deadline for August 31. The ALP's caucus will be...

While the rest of the country has been focusing on federal politics, two weeks ago the Queensland Attorney-General, Jarrod Bleijie, announced plans for a number of changes to Queensland's election laws. The package includes some innocuous proposals to improve electoral processes, but also a number...

Following on from the completion of the NSW draft boundaries map a fortnight ago, I have now finished the Google Earth maps of the new draft boundaries for the Victorian state redistribution. Electoral maps have been posted for the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council....

I've previously posted about the surge in political party registration applications, that was threatening to break the record for the largest number of political parties registered for an election. 40 separate political parties registered for the 1998 election. This number declined to 25 in 2010. Eight...

I haven’t been following the polls individually as they come out, and I don’t plan to do so for most of the upcoming campaign. There are other people who do this very well – in particular William Bowe at Poll Bludger, who has taken...

Now that the 150-seat election guide is complete and public, I've been noticing the level of activity on the blog increasing massively - regularly breaking 3000 hits in a day, and almost 80,000 hits for the month of June. In particular, the number of comments...

Last Thursday, the Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission released the draft boundaries for the Victorian state redistribution. These boundaries are expected to cover the 2014 and 2018 state elections. Antony Green has produced his estimates of the margins for all eighty-eight electorates. In short, two Nationals and...

Voters in the New Zealand electorate of Ikaroa-Rāwhiti went to the polls yesterday to elect an MP after the death of Labour MP Parekura Horomia. Labour retained the seat despite a significant swing against them. Ikaroa-Rāwhiti is a Māori electorate covering the west coast of the North Island...