The Tally Room

1:58pm - The CBC has called Saanich-Gulf Islands for Elizabeth May. 35 seats are yet to be called. I'm working on my map to produce a results summary later this afternoon so I'll stop this liveblog now. 1:24pm - Green Party leader Elizabeth May is...

Postscript: Canada's election laws ban all coverage and reporting of election results in districts where voting is still going on. This means that, between when results begin to come in from the eastern provinces and when polls close in British Columbia, all reporting of...

After analysing the overall preference flow of the Legislative Council count last week, I have moved on to taking a look at the results in each electorate. When analysing electorate results, most energy is expended looking at the Legislative Assembly vote, but the Legislative...

Alongside elections to the National Assembly of Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly, voters in Scotland will be voting in the fourth election for the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish Parliament was set up in 1999 following a referendum in 1997 which decisively voted in favour...

On Thursday 5 May, Welsh voters will go to the polls for the fourth time to elect members of the National Assembly of Wales. The Assembly was created in 1999 as part of a process of devolution which also saw the creation of a Parliament...

I blogged earlier tonight on what the actual result was in the Legislative Council. Now I want to turn to analysing that result and how that reflects on the campaign and coverage of the result. In the end the result of my projection was accurate,...

This is the first of two blog posts I will write tonight on the Legislative Council result. The second will focus on the spin and analysis around the count. Today’s result in the legislative Council count couldn’t have been any closer. The final two seats...

At the 2010 general election, the British House of Commons produced a hung parliament, the first one for over 30 years. The final result was a coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, putting Labour out of power after 13 years, and putting...

I've been making and posting my Google Earth electoral maps on my blog since day one, and I have now got quite a large collection posted. These include national electoral maps for the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Ireland, as...

In my continuing series of profiles on elections due in the month of May, today I'm focusing on the upcoming elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly on May 5. The Northern Ireland Assembly has existed in its current form since the 1998 Assembly elections. These...