The Tally Room

8:40 - The two largest swings in by-elections in NSW were 23% in Ryde and 21.8% in Cabramatta, both in 2008 after Morris Iemma's resignation. 8:29 - The Greens apparently got 23% in Hawkesbury Council's by-election, up from 10% in 2008. The Liberals have won...

You can follow today's Twitter debate between NSW Premier Kristina Keneally, Leader of the Opposition Barry O'Farrell and Greens MP Lee Rhiannon right here at the Tally Room.

The entirely forgotten former Labor senator John Black has published a very strange and stupid piece of electoral analysis in yesterday's Australian, basically arguing that Greens voters are richer than Liberals, therefore they won't support the mining tax because it will hurt their share...

The Netherlands is going to the polls on Wednesday to elect a new Parliament after the sitting government recently fell after failing to reach agreement about the Netherlands' continued involvement in Afghanistan. I haven't been following this campaign closely, but a friend of mine has...

I've recently discovered that you can view Google Earth maps in the Google Earth app on the iPhone. The attached image was taken this morning on my iPhone, showing an electoral map of central Sydney, with the blue dot showing my GPS location (I...

We've seen today two very different elections on opposite sides of the world where new parties have emerged from nowhere to poll highly in a massive protest vote against the political system, in very different ways. In Colombia, voters went to the polls in their...

Ever since the ALP lost the 2002 Cunningham by-election to the Greens with a large protest vote, they have finessed the art of expectations management through the leaking of supposed internal party polling data. The latest example came yesterday when the Sun-Herald ran a...

Now that I have finished New South Wales and South Australia and reached 100 profiles, I am working on getting the remaining seats in Queensland posted soon. I have now also created a Facebook page for the blog which you may wish to join....

Makin is a marginal seat in northeastern Adelaide. The seat was first created for the 1984 election, and in its short history has always been won by the party that formed government. The seat was held by controversial Liberal MP Trish Draper for the...

I have now posted my guide to the Penrith state by-election, to be held on June 19 following the resignation of Labor MP Karyn Paluzzano. You should also check out the guide to the federal election, as I have now finished all seats in...