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It's not midnight yet in Western Australia, but it's after 2am in Sydney so I probably should call it a night. On my count, the Liberals hold 29 seats, the Labor Party holds 18, the Nationals hold six, and six are still up for grabs. These...

Liberal - 29 Labor - 18 National - 6 Undecided seats - Belmont, Collie-Preston, Eyre, Kimberley, Midland, Warren-Blackwood 9:57pm - Looking back at the Legislative Council - the Greens are one vote behind the Liberals in North Metro. In South Metro it looks like the final seat is...

Voters are going to the polls today in Western Australia today - and those of us not in WA are simply left waiting until we have some results later tonight. In the meantime I've been learning how to use a few new tools to display...

Two days out from the Western Australian state election, the Liberal/National alliance looks set to grow its numbers, and the Liberals are likely to win a majority in the Legislative Assembly in their own right. Recent polling shows the Liberal/National alliance at 57-58% of the...

After a great deal of work, the Tally Room guide to the WA 2013 state election now has profiles of 32 out of 59 Legislative Assembly districts and all six Legislative Council regions. Unfortunately I've run out of time to finish the state, although I...

Eyre is a large regional seat in southeastern Western Australia, covering Esperance and southern parts of Kalgoorlie. The seat is a marginal Liberal seat. The Liberal Party's Graham Jacobs narrowly defeated the Nationals candidate in 2008. Read more

The Western Australian state election will be held on March 9. The Tally Room guide is still a work in progress, but you can now read profiles for the first ten seats. These ten seats include the six most marginal Liberal seats, and the four...

This afternoon, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that the next federal election will be held on Saturday, 14 September. Past practice in Australia is for the date of the election to be announced five or possibly six weeks out from the election - not more...

After extensive work, the first stage of the Tally Room's guide to the 2013 Australian federal election has now been posted. The first twenty seat guides have now been posted. These twenty seats all have margins of 3.2% or less, including eleven of the twelve...

I have an article in New Matilda today about the upcoming NSW state redistribution and I wanted to post some additional information here at the Tally Room. The NSWEC has posted the enrolment data for December 2012 on the redistribution website. The following table breaks...