The Tally Room

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...

Yesterday's Legislative Council elections were a good result for the Liberal Party, and produced three relatively solid results. Below the fold I've posted booth results maps for the top two candidates in each seat. Antony Green's ABC Elections page includes results in each polling place,...

Montgomery  - Hiscutt (LIB) 45.83%, Fuller 29.64%, Morgan 14.52%, Vincent 10.01% Nelson - Wilkinson 48.80%, Baxter (GRN) 25.33%, Richardson 17.65%, Willink 8.22% Pembroke - Goodwin (LIB) 50.98%, Ritchie 36.35%, Heatley (GRN) 12.67% 8:10pm - With most of the results in, the picture is reasonably clear. In Nelson, Wilkinson...

Dawson is a marginal LNP seat covering the north Queensland coast between Mackay and Townsville, and including the towns of Bowan and Ayr. The seat was held by the National Party's De-Anne Kelly for the entirety of the Howard government, and was defeated by James...

The WA Electoral Commission in the last few days has posted two-candidate-preferred figures per booth from the March state election. This has allowed me to produce the long-promised booth maps for a handful of they key seats that were the last to be decided. I have...

Update: results now include prepoll figures that came in late on the night. The Greens have overtaken the Sex Party, coming fifth. The DLP have overtaken Hung Vo for third place. ---- Lyndhurst's by-election will certainly see Labor candidate Martin Pakula elected, but the results were...