The Tally Room

The Greens have today announced that former Democrats leader Andrew Bartlett will run for the party in the federal seat of Brisbane at the next election. Bartlett was a senator for Queensland from 1997 until his defeat in 2007 saw his term finish in...

I have now posted a guide to the federal election in the seat of Macarthur. Macarthur is now Labor's most marginal seat, one where preselection contests are heated in both parties. It's also the seat where I ran in 2007.

US election results today have seen Republicans win Democratic governorships in New Jersey and Virginia, and independent Mike Bloomberg reelected as Mayor of New York by a surprisingly narrow margin. Two races remain close and worth watching. In Maine, "Question 1" is asking voters whether...

Just days after the Liberal Party actually conducted a local preselection to choose their candidate for Macarthur, the ALP has delved into the unedifying spectacle of dividing up the federal electorates of southwestern Sydney without any consideration of what any actual members might think...

Today is election day in the US, which tends to be a minor affair in odd-numbered years. This year, there are a number of interesting contests that I wanted to highlight. A special election has been called in New York's 23rd district to replace Rep....

Three more seat profiles have now been completed for the three most marginal Liberal seats: Bowman McEwen Paterson I have also included a little box in the top right hand corner of the website where links are provided to the most recently written seat guides. Keep an eye...

Former Mayor of Campbelltown Russell Matheson has defeated sitting Liberal MP Pat Farmer in preselection for the seat of Macarthur. Farmer has become the first federal Liberal MP to be defeated for preselection in five years, since Malcolm Turnbull defeated Peter King for Wentworth...

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...