The Tally Room

The candidate list posted on Wednesday morning quickly went out of date, with Julia Gillard and three of her ministers announcing their retirement despite previous plans to run for re-election: Stephen Smith in Perth, Peter Garrett in Kingsford Smith and Craig Emerson in Rankin. Despite...

Julia Gillard has called a caucus meeting at 7pm for a leadership spill, and has said that if she loses she will leave politics. I don't have anything particularly to say at this point, so consider this an open thread to discuss the events of...

After independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott announced they would not be contesting their seats earlier today, we now have answers from all 150 members of the House of Representatives as to whether they are running for re-election. Twenty members of the House of...

Voters in the New Zealand electorate of Ikaroa-Rāwhiti go to the polls this Saturday to elect their local MP after the death of Labour's Parekura Horomia in April. Ikaroa-Rāwhiti is one of seven Māori electorates in New Zealand. In addition to the 63 "general" electorates, a parallel...

A substantial amount of analysis was produced yesterday about the draft boundaries for the NSW redistribution. You can look at the maps here. Antony Green has posted his estimated margins for each electorate. He estimates that the ALP has lost two seats net to the Liberal Party....

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...