The Tally Room

The election to the Welsh Assembly produced a very different result to that for the Scottish Parliament. Labour has been in power in Wales since the establishment of the Assembly in 1999. Labour governed as a minority from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2003...

The Scottish Parliament election produced a quite dramatic result, with the incumbent SNP minority government winning a comfortable majority, despite Scotland's proportional voting system. Scotland's Parliament consists of 73 single-member constituencies, and 56 members elected on regional lists on a top-up basis. Labour formed governments after...

4:32pm - I'm stopping the blog now, most of the remaining results will come in tonight, with the AV referendum results and Northern Irish results coming in late tonight and into tomorrow. I'll post again with the final Welsh and Scottish figures. 4:13pm - The...

Voters in the UK are currently voting in a referendum on electoral reform, and the results should come in tomorrow morning. Closer to home, some electoral reform is taking place in two councils in the Illawarra area south of Sydney. Wollongong City Council and Shellharbour...

The Conservatives will continue in government after yesterday's federal election, but the election produced a radically changed Parliament and political climate. The Conservatives gained a majority after two unstable minority governments, while the left-wing New Democratic Party reduced the opposition Liberal Party to third-party...

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...