The Tally Room

I published the first draft of my guide to Brisbane City Council's election back in June 2023, but at the time most of the guide was reserved for Tally Room financial supporters. As we are now getting close to the election, I've now taken down...

The redistribution of electoral boundaries for the 2024 Northern Territory election was finalised on Friday. This has been a long process. The first draft boundaries were thrown out when there was a significant change in enrolment numbers in remote communities in the lead-up to the...

New South Wales councils will be up for election in September 2024, and the process of redrawing ward boundaries for these elections has now concluded. I have now finished making my new boundary map. In this post I've run through what changes happened in...

Ben is joined by Shaun Ratcliff from Accent Research to discuss his recent report looking at differences in voting trends across the generations. We discuss how Millenials and Gen Z voters are much more left-wing than Baby Boomers, explore some theories as to why,...

Sadly yesterday we heard that federal Labor MP Peta Murphy had died of cancer after a long illness. This is a website that covers elections, and Murphy's death means a federal by-election will be coming up in her seat of Dunkley. I would expect this...

The final electoral boundaries for the next Western Australian state election were released on Friday morning. The changes mostly replicated the draft boundaries released in July, although there were a few small changes, and some dramatic changes to two seats were mostly reversed. In this...

Queensland's local councils will be up for election next March. Numerous Queensland councils, including the urban councils of the south-east, use single-member wards (called "divisions" in Queensland). As such, they are sometimes due for redistribution. This term, only four councils were up for review, none...

The federal parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters yesterday released their report into the 2022 federal election. I won't try to summarise every point covered - the report covers matters to do with election funding and Indigenous enrolment. But I wanted to mention a few...

Ben is joined by Dr Simon Hix from the European University Institute to discuss a paper he co-wrote with John Carey about finding the Electoral Sweet Spot: how low-magnitude proportional representation systems tend to combine the best of majoritarian and proportional systems. This podcast is...