The Tally Room

The Herald this morning is reporting that the favourite for today's Liberal preselection for the Bradfield by-election is communications executive Paul Fletcher. Liberal Party sources have also confirmed to me that number crunchers following the preselection believe Fletcher has the numbers to win. Fletcher is...

There's been an assumption that the next federal redistribution for Victoria will be delayed until after the 2010 federal election. Victoria last had a redistribution in 2002, and every seven years a state must have a redistribution. However, redistributions cannot begin in the last...

The federal government today released its second Electoral Reform Green Paper, following on from a Green Paper dealing with election funding released in December 2008. The document is a comprehensive examination of all issues around Australian elections, blowing out to 260 pages in total.  Each...

With Germany voting next week to elect a new Bundestag, I thought people might find these maps of the German results from the European Parliament election interesting. They are available on the website of the Federal Returning Officer, and show the level of support...

I'm happy to report that I have now finished the English part of my UK House of Commons electoral map. I have uploaded it to the maps page, and you can download it here. This is the final version of the map as I...

The Sydney Morning Herald ran a story today reporting planning by the NSW Liberal Party for the 2011 state election based on the assumption that the Labor Party will allow vulnerable candidates to present themselves as independent figures and oppose various state government policies: NSW...

I know the blog has been pretty dead lately, but I have some new profiles for the 2010 federal election guide up to read and comment upon. You can read profiles now for the Victorian Senate race, Denison and Franklin.

The Greens tonight chose their candidate to run for the Bradfield by-election later this year. The Greens have chosen Susie Gemmell, who was the Greens candidate for Bradfield at the 2007 federal election and the overlapping state electorate of Ku-ring-gai at the 2003 and...

You might have noticed that I haven't been posting much on the blog over the last few weeks. One of the main reasons is that I have been working on a new project for the blog. I'm launching the first stage of that project...

The Swedish Pirate Party has risen to prominence in the last few months after they managed to break into the Swedish political mainstream, polling 7% at the June European Parliament election, which saw the party elect a Member of the European Parliament. The Pirate...