The Tally Room

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...

A state election is due in Queensland in the first half of 2012. As part of the Tally Room coverage of this election I am currently producing a guide for that election. This follows on from guides I have produced on the 2010 federal election,...

The final boundaries for the next WA state election were finally released on Monday. After a couple of days of work on it I have now published my Google Earth maps of WA, and you can download them from my Maps page. You might want...

Following on from my post earlier in the week after I posted new electoral maps for Victoria and South Australia, there was more news yesterday on redistributions. The final boundaries for next year's ACT Legislative Assembly election have been announced. The committee reverted to the...

The blog has been quiet for a while. Partly this has been due to me being very busy with other projects and with my day job, but the main reason has been due to me doing my work on this website behind the scenes. Over...

11:50pm - So at the end of the night it seems most likely that the council will consist of an independent Lord Mayor, Gordon Bradbery, alongside four Labor councillors, four Liberal councillors, two Greens councillors, and two independents, Vicki Curran and Greg Petty. There...