The Tally Room

So I've started working on a project that I will reveal in a few weeks' time as part of this blog. One of the things I am doing is making booth maps of each federal electorate. I have made three so far, and on...

I plan on covering the German federal election, but I haven't had a chance to consider the state elections happening in Germany before that. Luckily Charles in Germany has posted this comment on the blog yesterday, and I'll post it here as a new...

The South Australian Greens are also in the middle of choosing their ticket for the Legislative Council for the March 2010 state election. The meet-the-candidates forums are currently taking place, and the ballot and endorsement of the ticket will take place in September. The four...

A week after the AEC released the electoral boundaries, I have finally produced my Google Earth map of the boundaries. This took a lot longer than in the case of Queensland, but that's because I made a file that's much smaller and easier to...

So the federal government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme was voted down today, with all non-government senators voting to block it. It appears clear that this bill will return later this year, with two weeks of sitting in late November presenting an opportunity. In order to...

I've been thinking a lot about the future of the Nationals, and I thought I would play through some scenarios regarding their future. When considering the losses of seats through redistribution and election losses in New South Wales, and the creation of the LNP in...

After today's announcement of the draft boundaries for New South Wales' federal redistribution, I thought I would summarise the consequences of the election. It appears that this result has clearly benefited the ALP in its attempts to increase the size of the majority, although, as...

The draft federal redistribution boundaries for NSW will be announced this morning. Unfortunately I'll be in work and won't be able to break the story (although generally it's best to wait until Antony Green crunches the numbers). I will hopefully be able to post...

Just to follow up on today's story, Northern Territory Labor defector Alison Anderson has announced she will become an independent and support a new Country Liberal government. This will be the first mid-term change of government, that I can think of, since John Curtin...

Two separate stories have emerged in the last few days of governments that could lose their majority with the resignations of their own party's parliamentarians. In the Northern Territory, Labor MP Alison Anderson has resigned from the party, and is yet to make clear which...