The Tally Room

I'm still slowly making my way through writing my guide to the federal election. I have now finished 13 House of Representatives seat guides, with the latest being the four most marginal seats in Adelaide: Boothby, Hindmarsh, Kingston and Sturt. Now that redistributions have concluded...

Local government election results have now been posted on the website of the Tasmanian Electoral Commission, showing primary vote figures from election night. I don't know about most of the races, but a few key points of interest: Mayor of Hobart Rob Valentine has been...

I have today finished electoral maps for Northern Ireland. I have completed boundaries for the period 1997-2007 and the new boundaries for the 2010 general election. Northern Ireland uses the same 18 constituencies for both Westminster elections and Legislative Assembly elections. When electing the...

The AEC yesterday released the final electoral boundaries for New South Wales for the next federal election. While they are planning to commence a Victorian redistribution early in 2010, it won't be done in time for the election, meaning that all seats in Australia...

The Daily Telegraph this morning reports a story that the NSW Liberal Party have approached recently-retired rugby league player Hazem El Masri as a candidate for the state seat of Lakemba at the 2011 state election. It's a fascinating story indicating how ambitious the NSW...

Former Campbelltown mayor Russell Matheson has begun a preselection challenge against Pat Farmer, Liberal member for Macarthur, nominating for the party's preselection, which will take place in the next few weeks. Matheson has been a Campbelltown councillor since 1991, and in that time has served...

Last Friday the AEC released the final Queensland electoral boundaries for the next federal election. These boundaries include a small number of changes from the draft boundaries, and Antony Green has posted updated notional margins for each seat based on the 2007 election results....

Because twelve would be silly. This week's North Shore Times reports that Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party plan to nominate multiple candidates in the Bradfield by-election. Why? Well, why not? Apparently they have already chosen two candidates and could choose as many as nine more: Campaign...

I've just posted my guide to the upcoming Higgins by-election, including booth maps. Go comment.

Tasmania goes to the polls in October to elect local councillors across the state. Tasmania is broken up into twenty-nine LGAs. Tasmanian councils are not elected using wards: instead half of each council is elected every two years representing the entire council area, with...