The Tally Room

I have now finished maps for 88 of 93 seats in the NSW Legislative Assembly and plan to finish the remainder in the next few days. Throughout December and January you should see profiles of each seat go up on the site, but I...

Following on from my post on the Greens overtaking the ALP on the north shore of Sydney, I have just been working on the booth map for the north coast seat of Ballina. The seat covers Ballina Shire and most of Byron Shire. Byron...

I'm currently rushing to prepare my guide to the NSW state election prior to Christmas. In the last ten days I've made booth maps for 55 out of 93 seats, which covers most of the Sydney basin and all of the Illawarra. I'm hoping...

Clearly last night was a terrible result for the ALP. Until the last few weeks Brumby seemed on track for comfortable re-election, and it was only the final pre-election polls that predicted a Coalition victory. It also suggests any Labor government is in trouble....

11:21pm - The latest margins in these seats are: Albert Park - ALP by 1585 Narre Warren North - ALP by 804 Macedon - ALP by 719 Eltham - ALP by 225 Bentleigh - Liberal by 213 If the ALP can't take Bentleigh, the Coalition will have a majority. They...

This morning I finished the final seat three seat profiles for the Victorian state election. You can access the entire guide, or view the seats in alphabetical order, by Legislative Council region, or by viewing the pendulum. Each Legislative Council regional profile includes links...

With the Irish economy on the brink and in need for a bailout from international organisations and the European Union, Ireland is also on the verge of an election which has been pending for the last few years. The junior coalition partner Green Party has...

News has broken this morning that the Liberal Party will be putting the Greens last in all Legislative Assembly races in Victoria. This is an issue only in the four inner-Melbourne seats where the Greens are in a contest with Labor to win, with...

During the last week of the US midterm elections, I visited a number of groups involved in election campaigning, and it was striking how election campaigning is shaped by the voluntary voting system. I previously was aware of this, and expected to see some...

Some quick results: Overall, Democrats hold 49 seats in the Senate, Republicans hold 46, independents hold two, and three are undecided. Republicans have gained Democratic Senate seats in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, North Dakota and Arkansas. Democrats managed to hold onto Senate seats in Connecticut, West Virginia,...