The Tally Room

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,...

At the latest point in the count in the Legislative Council, the figures for the main contenders are: Liberal/National - 10.66 quotas Labor - 5.35 Greens - 2.42 Shooters and Fishers - 0.81 Christian Democrat - 0.68 Pauline Hanson - 0.41 This would produce a result of 19 Coalition, 14 Labor,...

There are a number of seats that are in doubt after last night's counting. Balmain - Balmain is the most interesting seat of the election at the moment. At time of writing, the Liberal candidate James Falk leads on 32.3%, with sitting Labor MP Verity...

I'll be writing a number of posts today about the result's of yesterday's NSW state election, covering the seats in doubt, the race in the Legislative Council, and the scale of the defeat for Labor. As far as general trends are concerned, some things are...

8:52 - Seats that Labor currently appears to have lost to the Coalition: Blue Mountains, Camden, Campbelltown, Charlestown, Coogee, Drummoyne, Gosford, Heathcote, Londonderry, Maitland, Menai, Miranda, Mulgoa, Parramatta, Riverstone, Rockdale, Smithfield, Strathfield, The Entrance, Wollondilly and Wyong. The Nationals have gained Bathurst, but have...

The people of New South Wales are going to the polls today in a state election. The Coalition is expected to win a massive majority, with the Labor Party facing one of their worst results in the party's history. Use this thread to discuss the...