The Tally Room

Over the break I have completed about twenty-seven seat guides for my guide to the 2010 federal election. Some of those which have been posted include: Herbert Sturt Hughes Swan Cowper Ryan Calare Sydney Grayndler Page North Sydney Greenway Wentworth Just today I have posted the guide to the seat of Melbourne, the Greens' best chance of winning...

With South Australia's state election coming up on March 20, I have taken the opportunity to improve the electoral maps for South Australia posted on this blog. The maps for the 2006 election and for the upcoming 2010 election had already been posted, but...

Just as I did last year, I have ceased posting on the front page of the blog for the Christmas/New Year period. I find that few people read the blog during this period and it will give me a chance to work on more...

The NSW Labor Party has again hit rock-bottom in a new state Newspoll out today in the Australian. The poll gives the ALP only 26% of the vote, which is their current record low from a poll last year following the removal of Morris...

I have finally completed the UK electoral map for next year's general election for the House of Commons. I had previously completed maps for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and have now completed the map for Scotland. I have also updated the map of England...

The Sydney Morning Herald has today begun a campaign to have the state constitution changed to allow "recall elections", where a petition of a large number of state voters would result in the Parliament being dissolved and a fresh election being called, regardless of...

Election results on Saturday have largely been interpreted as some sort of endorsement of new Liberal leader Tony Abbott, yet looking at the figures the result is highly unremarkable for the Liberal Party. Bradfield and Higgins are both incredibly safe seats for the Liberal Party....

8:32pm - There are reports tonight that police were called to Warrawee booth today following an incident where an abusive DLP worker assaulted a Greens volunteer, who he pushed over a fence. The worker had apparently been verbally aggressive to a number of other...

Voters will soon go to the polls in Bradfield, in northern Sydney, and Higgins, in eastern Melbourne, to elect new members of Parliament to succeed former Liberal MPs Brendan Nelson and Peter Costello. I will be at Cromehurst Special School in Lindfield today, and mostly...

So I visited the seat of Bradfield yesterday, covering the Hornsby prepoll centre for a few hours in the afternoon for the Greens' candidate, Sueie Gemmell. The booth was quiet, however the one interesting element came when we had one of the nine Christian Democratic...