The Tally Room

There are five elections scheduled for 2024 that I'm planning to write guides for, and today I'm ready to unveil the third one of them. The ACT election will be held on October 18, just one week before Queensland. The Assembly's electorates have been redrawn, and...

9:50 - So we don't really have a valid 2CP between Labor and Liberal, so it's a bit hard to say what's going on. But while Labor at the moment is on track for a primary vote swing of 10-11%, the Liberal vote is...

Federal redistributions are currently underway in three states. While the main focus is on the boundaries of the electorates, and the electoral implications of those boundaries, it's worth also drawing some attention to the question of what we name those electorates. Australia's federal boundaries are...

Shane Easson has been drawing up redistribution submissions for the Australian Labor Party since 1984. This year he's not doing the Labor submission for New South Wales, although he is working on those in some other states, and he came on the podcast to...

The suggestions from members of the public, MPs and political parties for the current redistribution of federal electoral boundaries in New South Wales were released yesterday. Unfortunately I was a bit preoccupied on my way back from Malaysia so it's taken some time to...

Today's podcast was recorded at the roundtable on Boundary Delimitation and Malapportionment in Asia and the Pacific held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 28-29, 2023. The event was hosted by Indonesian NGO Perludem and Malaysian organisations Bersih and Tindak Malaysia, in coordination with...

We're now one year out from the next Queensland state redistribution. Queensland was the last state to extend its parliamentary terms to four years, and probably doesn't hold redistributions often enough for the new term lengths. State redistributions are typically held in Victoria and New...

The Australian Electoral Commission has now officially published the population projections to be used when redrawing Victoria's federal electoral map prior to the next federal election. This follows on similar moments in the NSW and Western Australia federal redistributions in recent weeks. Electorates must be...

The Australian Electoral Commission has now released the numbers to be used when drawing new federal electoral boundaries for Western Australia. This follows up on the NSW numbers released last month, with Victoria due next week. Western Australia will get a sixteenth seat, making up...

When I went to look at the Voice referendum results at the booth level in my local area, I noticed some surprising trends in terms of which booths voted Yes. In Parramatta, I was surprised that the north-east of the seat generally voted No, while...