The Tally Room

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...

In the last few days, there has been much media interest in the decision of the Greens NSW to not direct preferences to the Labor Party in the Legislative Council on their how-to-vote cards. This provoked a fierce response from Labor party figures such as...

It is now Sunday evening in the Republic of Ireland, and most seats have been decided in their general election. The overall result is clear, with the governing Fianna Fail party decimated, their government partner the Green Party completely eliminated from the Dail, and...

11:10am - We're getting early figures in for a bunch of constituencies. They are all confirming the trend that we have seen. In Donegal South-West, the Deputy PM, Mary Coughlan, is in trouble. 9:04am - I've been doing some number-crunching of the 2007 election results...

Ireland's electoral system is one that is relatively familiar to Australians, but quite unusual around the world, using a system similar to Hare-Clark, used in Tasmania and the ACT. The lower house of the Irish Parliament, the Dáil Éireann, has existed in various forms for...

Ireland goes to the polls this Friday in a general election that will likely see a massive shift in Irish politics. The current Irish government has been in power since 1997, led by the conservative Fianna Fail party. They have been in coalition since 2007...