The Tally Room

8:23pm - All ordinary votes have come in, with prepoll and postal votes yet to come. Labor's vote is sitting just over 40%. Sex Party and Greens preferences will ensure Labor wins, but it's a big loss. I'm going to come back later tonight...

Voters in three Tasmanian Legislative Council seats go to the polls on May 4 to elect upper house members for the next six years. Profiles have been prepared for the three races, including results of the previous election, history of the seat, and list of...

Last week, Richard Torbay's political career came to an end. He's been a state independent MP for Northern Tablelands since 1999, and served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 2007 to 2011. He was preselected to run for the Nationals in New England against...

The four parties represented in the Victorian parliament have all put in submissions for the redistribution leading up the 2014 election. These boundaries were last drawn prior to the 2002 election, and in some areas seat populations have diverged quite dramatically from the average. Generally the...

As yesterday’s abortive coup played out, Nick Bryant from the BBC penned a fascinating piece laying out the differences in political cultures between Australia and the United Kingdom when it comes to leadership coups. Australia’s culture of sudden, brutal and frequent internal leadership changes...

A by-election will be held in the safe Labor seat of Lyndhurst on 27 April. The seat should be easily retained by Labor, and is unlikely to be very interesting. I've now written a guide to the by-election, which you can read (and comment on)...

The WA Electoral Commission "pushed the button" today for five of the six Legislative Council regions. The Greens were elected in South Metro and Mining and Pastoral, and the Shooters and Fishers won a seat in Agricultural region. Overall, the Liberals have won 13 seats, Labor...

Last week, the first round of suggestions for the NSW state electoral redistribution were released. From here, there will be a chance to lodge a comment on these suggestions by Wednesday, March 20, and then the Commissioners will produce a draft map of the state....

Since I last posted, the race has been decided in the Kimberley and in Belmont. Liberal candidate Glenys Godfrey leads in Belmont by 308 votes, and should be elected. This is a gain from the Labor Party. In Kimberley, the Greens fell into third place, producing...

On Saturday, while most attention was focused on Western Australia, voters in four regional Queensland areas voted to overturn controversial council amalgamations forced through by the Beattie Labor government in 2007. The amalgamations caused an uproar in large parts of regional Queensland, and the Liberal...