The Tally Room

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...

Submissions closed last Friday for Queensland's federal redistribution, and they have now been published online. The interesting factors include: A large number of submissions have called for the districts in the western parts of the Flynn electorate be redistributed back into Maranoa, including submissions from...

The republican debate has been restarted this morning as a Senate inquiry has begun sitting to consider a Greens proposal for a plebiscite on a republic. Monarchist and professional pompous gasbag David Flint has dismissed the idea in his usual style: David Flint, a spokesman from...

Listening to Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch podcast this morning, I heard this fascinating excerpt from ABC Radio National's Saturday Extra program three weeks ago, from former editor of The Age and publisher of online business publications The Business Spectator and the Eureka Report, Alan...

I haven't been covering the early movements in the lead-up to the 2010 U.S. mid-term elections on this blog. One of the key contests has been shaping up to be in Pennsylvania, where moderate Republican Senator Arlen Specter was facing a challenge from conservative...

The final votes have been tallied in South Africa, and the results are in. The national and provincial tallies have been published at the World Elections blog, with the key part being the national tally for the major parties: ANC 65.90% (-3.79%) DA 16.66% (+4.29%) COPE 7.42%...

After yesterday's election, Iceland appears on track for a continuing Social Democrat/Left-Green coalition government, with the figures reflecting recent polling figures: Iceland’s left wing parties are holding their advantage in the country’s parliamentary elections, but the Independence Party are resurgent. At 03.00 63 percent of...