The Tally Room

I've been putting work recently into producing new ward maps for the three east coast states that will have local government elections in 2012. The electoral commissions in Queensland and Victoria provide an easy-to-follow page on their website with all the information about ward boundaries...

Today Anna Bligh announced that the next Queensland state election will be held on March 24 2012. This is an unusually early announcement of the election date, which is due to a number of complicating factors. Bligh has stated that she had intended to call...

The US presidential primary system is a strange beast - the race opens with elections in a number of small states, a small proportion of delegates decided over an extended period, with the vast bulk of delegates not decided until a later date. Yet this...

Just in time for the end of the year, the Tally Room guide to the Queensland state election is now finished. Profiles have been written for all 89 seats, as well as a summary of the last century in Queensland state politics, a summary of...

US presidential primaries are unlike any other election in the world. You have a massive expensive race involving a large number of candidates, where the race often hinges on small states with their own peculiarities. It doesn't even have much resemblance to primaries for lower...

The race for the Republican presidential nomination for the 2012 presidential election has been underway for most of 2011, yet I've avoided the campaign on this blog. No votes will be cast until 2012, and while candidates have risen and fallen over the last year...

It's much easier to summarise a New Zealand election than in a country like Australia, Canada or the UK where the election is dependent on particular seats and regions. Overall the result was 60 National, 34 Labour, 13 Green, 8 New Zealand First, 3 Maori,...

9:32 - National is now down to 61 seats, Labour on 33, Greens on 13, with others the same with NZF on 8, Maori Party on 3 and three other parties on 1 each. 9:23 - Look at the political arrangements at the current projection....

New Zealand's Parliament includes 70 single-member electorates - a majority of seats in the Parliament. On the surface this would suggest that any analyst looking at election results on Saturday night should focus on the key marginal seats where National and Labour candidates will...

New Zealanders are going to the polls this Saturday to hold their general election. The conservative National Party government will be seeking a second term after defeating the Labour Party in 2008. New Zealand elects its Parliament using the Mixed Member Proportional system. Under this...