The Tally Room

Yesterday, as the budget was announced by the government, former Treasurer Peter Costello launched a spiffy new website, which doesn't make much sense for someone on the verge of retirement. Examining the layout of the website, I found the website header interesting: I thought that it...

1:08pm - Polls have now closed in British Columbia. I'll report results as they come in. I'm listening to CBC Radio in Vancouver. You can download the Google Earth map of BC's electoral map from my maps page. 1:29pm - Very early figures have the...

I've been pondering the fact that every single statewide submission to the NSW redistribution that I've read has proposed shifting the border in the Macarthur area so that one electorate covers all of Campbelltown, while most or all of Camden is grouped with Wollondilly...

Voters go to the polls in British Columbia on Tuesday to elect a new Provincial Parliament and vote for a second time on changing the electoral system in the province to the Single Transferable Vote system (similar to Tasmania's Hare-Clark system). The governing conservative Liberal...

I wrote a piece in Wednesday's Crikey summarising the seat-by-seat comparisons I posted on this blog that same day. I've posted it below the fold. In today's Crikey, Charles Richardson has written a piece exploring how, in spite of all the work the parties...

I have completed a couple more Google Earth maps and uploaded them to the Maps page of the blog. I have completed GE maps of Local Government Area boundaries in both Western Australia and Tasmania. Now the only Australian council areas I haven't covered...

I've been quiet for the last few days, mainly because I have been going through the ALP and Liberal submissions to the AEC's New South Wales redistributions seat-by-seat. I have produced the following detailed report on what their proposals are for each seat. You...

7:25pm - With between 30% and 45% of the vote counted, depending on the electorate, we're getting a bit of a picture. In Derwent, the Treasurer, Michael Aird, will be returned, but has seen his vote drop dramatically and looks likely to go to...

Nathan Lambert has extended the work that Possum has done in mapping election results by booth. He has produced excellent Google Earth maps showing vote levels, which you can access here. I'll probably spend all day playing with them. Update: Lambert's go great with my...

I had a read through the submissions to the Senate inquiry into Senator Bob Brown's legislation to hold a plebiscite to gauge support in the community for severing Australia's links with the British monarchy, before future plebiscites and referenda to resolve the issue. Most submissions...