The Tally Room

The NSW Electoral Commission has released the draft boundaries for the NSW state redistribution this morning. I'm at work today so won't be able to do any in-depth analysis until later. I'm sure Antony Green will post his analysis today, and in the meantime you...

Earlier today I posted the full list of candidates compiled in the creation of the Tally Room election guide. You can view it here. The list has already expanded to 473. This data makes it possible to look at the gender balance of candidates running, and what effect...

While I have been preparing the Tally Room election guide for the upcoming federal election, I have compiled a list of all candidates who have been announced. Each candidate that comes to my attention has been posted on the page of the relevant electorate, but I've...

After a year preparing maps, posting seat profiles and pulling together a large amount of information, the Tally Room guide to the 2013 federal election is now finished and ready for the campaign to start in earnest. Seat profiles have now been posted for all 150...

The seat of Batman in the inner north of Melbourne has been in the news since Martin Ferguson announced his retirement earlier this week. Earlier today I was discussing the geography of Batman: specifically how the Greens do better in the south of the electorate. One...

Earlier in May I wrote a blog post and an article at New Matilda about the surge in parties registering for the upcoming federal election, including speculation about a large number of parties trying to register for the election at the last minute. The Australian Electoral...

Yesterday's by-election in the NSW state seat of Northern Tablelands saw a result in line with expectations: the Nationals won the seat with a massive swing and a comfortable majority on primary votes. The seat has a history of being held by the Nationals before...

Results as of 8:33pm Candidate Party Votes % Swing Bill Bush IND 919 2.76 +2.76 Adam Marshall NAT 20,910 62.87 +34.53 Dora Koops GRN 1,461 4.39 +1.11 Herman Beyersdorf ALP 3,205 9.64 +6.24 Katherine Nicholson IND 1,479 4.45 +4.45 Jim Maher IND 4,580 13.77 -49.63 Silvana Nero CDP 706 2.12 +0.54 8:23pm - I'm going to call it a night now, and I'll come back tomorrow with a results summary. 8:21pm - The Nationals vote for each part of the seat is as follows: Armidale - 51.1% Glen...

Yesterday was the deadline for political parties to lodge an application to be registered in time for the federal election. Applications take at least three months, and must be concluded before the writs are issued in mid-August. A lot of attention has been paid to...

The pendulum orders every seat in the country by the swing required for that seat to change hands. By following the pendulum you can determine roughly how many seats will fall with a particular national vote. Antony Green has built a calculator which can...