The Tally Room

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...

On the afternoon of the election I had a discussion on Twitter about why parties hand out how-to-vote cards and the significance of their preference decisions. I thought people might find it interesting to have the perspective of someone who has handed out thousands...

Canadian voters will go to the polls on 2 May for their fourth federal election in seven years. The centre-left Liberal Party governed in majority for eleven years from 1993 to 2004, easily brushing away divided conservative forces alongside a popular sovereignty movement in Quebec....

While we were all distracted by the recent NSW election, an interesting psephological story broke in Queensland with relatively little fanfare. The Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Campbell Newman, has announced that he will contest the marginal Labor seat of Ashgrove at the next state election,...

Plenty of people have already taken News Ltd hack David Penberthy to task for his lie that the Greens preferenced Pauline Hanson in the Legislative Council over the Labor Party. It's a pretty easily disproved claim, considering the Greens did not give any preference...

A lot of information has fed into the count for the Legislative Council, bringing us much closer to a conclusion. Nearly all above-the-line votes have now been counted at local electoral offices. With 11 seats going to the Liberal-National coalition, 5 to the Labor Party,...