The Tally Room

This is the first in a series of profiles of each EU member state in the leadup to the European Parliament elections in early June. Ireland will elect it's Members of the European Parliament on Friday 5th June. The same day will see two by-elections...

Amongst everything else, I'm still working on my Google Earth map of House of Commons constituencies. I recently finished work on the seats in the South West region and uploaded the latest version to my maps page. The latest version of the map covers...

The result in the daylight savings referendum was clearcut, with the 'no' case winning, with a 55.49% 'no' vote. I've put together a few maps showing the distribution of the vote. Every single electorate outside Perth gave a solid majority to the 'no' case....

8:45pm - There are currently 23 Greens MPs around the country. There were 24 Greens MPs from Ronan Lee's defection to the Greens in late 2008 to his defeat in March 2009. There are three Greens waiting to take office in the WA Legislative...

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...