The Tally Room

2:46pm - We're starting to get results coming on the Election Commission's results website. I'll start doing some analysis at the earliest opportunity, however it appears that the website is being overwhelmed. Stay tuned. 3:29pm - I'm finding other sources for information. In Kerala, which...

Tomorrow is a big day for elections, and I thought it would be useful to lay out what we will be seeing tomorrow: India's election finished on Wednesday, and the results of the vote counting will be announced tomorrow. I don't know how this information...

British Columbia now has three examples of a vote this decade where a relatively small difference in vote results in lopsided seat numbers, which appears to be remarkably common in Canada. the 2001 provincial election saw the Liberal Party win a ridiculous 77 of...

I have spent this afternoon fixing the errors in my BC Google Earth map. It turns out that the Electoral Boundaries Commission, whose maps I was using, proposed an 83-seat drawing of the map, but the map was redrawn to add two extra seats...

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...