The Tally Room

I have begun a guide to the UK election today by posting a guide to the race in London. Over the next few weeks I plan to post guides to the race in the nine regions of England as well as in Scotland, Wales...

Reports in the British media today are suggesting that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will visit the Queen today to dissolve the Parliament and trigger a UK general election for Thursday, 6 May. After a long period of Conservative dominance in the polls, the Labour...

The final seat in the Tasmanian state election was decided this evening, with Greens candidate Paul O'Halloran winning the final seat in Braddon. This has produced a result of 2 Labor, 2 Liberal and one Green in all five districts, adding up to a...

Preference counts for the five electorates in the Tasmanian state election are currently being undertaken by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission, and progressive counts are being posted on the TEC website for Bass, Braddon, Denison, Franklin and Lyons. Final update: The count has now concluded, with...

Last Saturday we saw state elections in Australia's two smallest states. Both states have been governed by the Labor Party for a number of terms and saw a resurgent Liberal Party threaten the ALP's hold on power. In both states, we saw a swing...

Sky News last night reported a local exit poll in Tasmania which predicted nine seats for the ALP, nine seats for the Liberal Party and four for the Greens, with three undecided. This morning the state of play exactly reflects that poll. The ALP...

11:31pm - I'm signing off for the night. I'll come back tomorrow to post wrap-ups of the results in South Australia and Tasmania tomorrow. You can read tonight's commentary, as well as maps showing the result in South Australia, it's available over the fold. 11:00pm...

Voters go to the polls today in Australia's two smallest states. In both states long-standing Labor governments are set to take a hit, although the situation is very different. In South Australia, Mike Rann's ALP is set to lose seats to Liberal leader Isobel Redmond....

The Greens have now preselected candidates for the two seats in Sydney's inner city where the party has performed most strongly in the past. These candidates join other prominent Greens inner-city candidates Adam Bandt, running in Melbourne, and former Democrats leader Andrew Bartlett, running...

Following yesterday's prediction of the results in Saturday's Tasmanian election, I have now put together a prediction of the result in South Australia. I haven't followed South Australia as closely as I have with Tasmania, so I have mostly made the changes based on...