The Tally Room

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...

With two days to go, it's time to make some predictions. Lots of predictions have been made, some on individual seat threads and others on general NSW threads, but I thought it was time to bring them all together and make a stab myself. I expect...

It's been reported today that the Liberal Party is preferencing Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party in the Legislative Council in 86 of 93 seats. The seven seats where they are exhausting are Coogee, Sydney, Auburn, Bankstown, Granville, Lakemba and Liverpool. There has been a theory that...

There has been a lot of talk about the possibilities of small right-wing parties holding the balance of power in the Legislative Council, and the effect this would have on NSW politics. I've already dealt with a lot of the fear and misinformation in...

I have recently been working on a project where I broke down the gender of all candidates from the Coalition, Labor and the Greens. The Greens and the Coalition both finalised their list of candidates a few weeks ago, but it has been impossible...

It's been a few days now since I posted on the front page about NSW politics, so I thought it was time to open a new thread for any general discussion of NSW politics. Nominations are open this week, with candidate names gradually being posted...