The Tally Room

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...

Voters are going to the polls in the two NSW cities of Wollongong and Shellharbour to elect their local councils for the first time in over seven years. Wollongong and Shellharbour city councils were sacked in mid 2008, shortly before the scheduled elections in September...

Today Elections ACT announced new electoral boundaries that radically change the electoral boundaries used since 1995, and making very difficult or impossible for the Greens to retain all four of their seats at next year's election. I've posted analysis on the impact and maps of...

A friend recently referred me to an academic paper (PDF) produced by Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University. The paper discusses the electoral system used by the Alice Springs Town Council (and all local government in the Northern Territory)...

Yesterday's political news was dominated by the announcement by federal independent MP Bob Katter's announcement that he will be forming a new political party to contest the next Queensland and federal elections. Katter has imaginatively called the party "Katter's Australian Party". Katter has served as...

The Tally Room has gone quiet for most of May. I have been working on other projects, including improving my maps and getting ready for upcoming elections. I'm planning on only blogging sporadically for at least the next month. In the meantime I have...