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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...

Over the weekend I finished a Google Earth map of the finalised 2014 boundaries for the South Australian state election. I had previously posted a draft map on the blog months ago. Antony Green has posted a new pendulum and summaries of each new seat....

Last week I had a piece published on New Matilda about the experiment with election privatisation at the recent NSW local government elections. I will also be interviewed this morning on Mornings with Linda Mottram on ABC local radio in Sydney (702 AM). I'll post the...

The mess that is US election administration was demonstrated most clearly at the 2000 presidential election, when the result hinged on an effective tie in Florida. Various courts intervened, rules varied depending on which official was issuing them, and ballot paper designs were proven...

The big story of last week’s US presidential election was the impact of demographic change on election results. While Mitt Romney won a large majority of the white vote, it wasn't enough to win an election in a modern America with a rapidly growing...

Tuesday's election was definitely a strong result for the Democrats, with Republicans picking up the scraps with a few victories. The Democrats performed very strongly in the presidential race, with Obama achieving a slim majority of the popular vote and holding on to most of...