The Tally Room

Since I last updated yesterday morning, most of the votes in South Africa have been counted, and the vote percentages have shifted significantly. With about 15 million votes counted, the latest figures are as follows: ANC - 66.56% DA - 15.95% COPE - 7.5% IFP - 4.45% ID - 0.9% In...

I've added a few more maps today. I've completed the Google Earth map for the new Tasmanian boundaries for the next federal and state elections in 2010, and I've also uploaded a new version of the Queensland state map with the colours updated to...

Following Barack Obama's win in 2008, the dominant meme in election campaigning around the western world has been the importance of online campaigning and adopting the model Obama used. Even in small western countries like Ireland, you find parties and politicians trying to get their...

Polls have closed now in South Africa. I'll be at work soon and won't be able to keep up with the vote-counting, but some early results have come through. Update: with about 266,000 votes cast (out of an estimated total of about 23 million), we...

Three of Tasmania's fifteen Legislative Council electorate go to the polls on Saturday. Tasmania's Legislative Council members serve six year terms, with their terms gradualy expiring over a six-year cycle. These are the first elections sinc e Legislative Council boundaries were redrawn last year. I...

South Africa's voters are now going to the polls in their fourth post-apartheid election. I've previously blogged about the campaign, and will just post here an article of mine published in today's Crikey Daily Mail: South Africa's voters go to the polls today to vote...

Every left-winger's favourite religious right politician, Gordon Moyes MLC, looks set to finally break his ties with Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party, with Nile moving to expel Moyes after a recent falling-out between the two. Moyes joined the Legislative Council in 2002 when Fred Nile's...

South Africa heads to the polls on Wednesday for their fourth post-apartheid election, and it seems clear that Jacob Zuma will lead the African National Congress to its fourth consecutive landslide victory. The Democratic Alliance, one of the two major opposition parties, has shifted its...

The federal government announced earlier this week that they will bring back legislation for a 70% tax increase on pre-mixed alcoholic drinks. The legislation was first defeated a month ago when the government refused to agree to Steven Fielding's demand for a ban on...

I have now installed a complete wiki as part of the Tally Room. You can access it at www.tallyroom.com.au/wiki, and I plan to start by including a federal pendulum for the next election, as well as corresponding pages for all 150 electorates. If you...