The Tally Room

Voters in Canberra go to the polls tomorrow to elect the ACT's Legislative Assembly for the next four years. The ACT Legislative Assembly is elected from three districts for a total of seventeen seats, using the Hare-Clark proportional representation system. At the 2008 election, the Labor...

7:38pm - I'm at the Greens election night party looking at results in Greens races, and I will produce some results. I've received reports from two scrutineers in Glebe and Surry Hills that Clover has won an easy majority of the primary vote for...

Others have more thoroughly covered the NT election results elsewhere. In short, the Country Liberal Party has won government entirely by winning Labor seats in remote parts of the Northern Territory, while the ALP has retained all eight of their seats in Darwin. The CLP...

Today voters in the Northern Territory go to the polls to elect members of their Legislative Assembly, while in southern Sydney the voters of Heffron are electing a successor to Kristina Keneally in the NSW Legislative Assembly. I have prepared a guide to the Heffron...

10:47pm - CORRECTION - My calculations were miscounting absentee votes from last time. Now that I have fixed this, and added in prepoll votes (which helped the Greens, but not enough) it seems likely that Labor will win on postal votes, unless the Greens...

Late last week the Electoral District Boundaries Commission of South Australia released draft boundaries for the next South Australian state election in March 2014. Antony Green has covered the changes and their significance in more depth, including margins for every seat and a description of...

Despite my plans to stop posting on the website, I have now also posted a guide to the upcoming ACT election in October. This includes profiles of the three electorates, maps and an overall summary of the ACT political situation. This doesn't mean I will necessarily...

I have just posted two new guides for two by-elections expected in the next few months. A by-election will be held soon in the state seat of Melbourne following the resignation of Labor MP Bronwyn Pike. The race is expected to be a head-to-head contest...

Voters across the United Kingdom will be voting today in local elections, for local councillors and Mayors. The system varies wildly - with some areas not voting, and with many parts of England covered by two different levels of local government. Scottish voters will be...

Brisbane City Council stands out from all other local government in Australia. Unlike all other capital cities, Brisbane is governed by a single local government, one that covers approximately one million people. Brisbane elections are more like state elections than most local council elections, particularly...