The Tally Room

It's hard to find solid information, but a number of polling companies have produced exit polls, and according to the Jakarta Post's coverage of the exit polls, they all put Yudohoyono's party leading with about 20%, with Megawati's IDP-S coming second with around 15%...

Roy Morgan polling has come out with a new poll measuring voting intention for the Senate, broken down according to each state and the ACT. The poll predicts 34-35 ALP senators, 30-31 Coalition senators, 8-10 Greens and 2 Xenophon. It was conducted during March for...

In the aftermath of the Iowa Supreme Court ruling that same-sex marriage is protected under the state's constitution, Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com has laid out how public opinion in the US is shifting steadily towards gay marriage, and he makes predictions about when each...

We've got a bunch of global elections taking place over the next two months. I have posted an electoral calendar in the sidebar. These include elections in South Africa, India and Iceland, a parliamentary election in Indonesia, a referendum on Daylight Saving in Western...

I have installed the Wordpress Wiki plugin and set up a page that should be editable for all registered users. If you go to the bottom of the right-hand column and register, you should be able to edit the the "test wiki" page. So what can...

Thanks to Simon Copland in comments who has pointed out to us that former WA Attorney-General Jim McGinty has resigned as Member for Fremantle, triggering a by-election with the daylight savings referendum on May 16: Mr McGinty’s decision, which follows months of speculation about his...

Mark Latham has made another return to Australian political debate in the last few days, with an article from his former chief of staff being published in a scientific journal, arguing that Latham suffered from a "narcissistic and paranoid personality": In a article written for...

I haven't managed to get my head around the consequences of India's electoral "delimitation" process, which saw most of the country's electorate boundaries redrawn for the first time in 33 years, but this article from the BBC gives a good overview of the consequences: In...

Following Lawrence Springborg's election-night resignation has resulted in the election of largely-unknown Gold Coast MP John-Paul Langbroek as leader of the Queensland LNP. Langbroek defeated former National Fiona Simpson and former Liberal Tim Nicholls. Lawrence Springborg has been elected as the party's deputy leader....

Maharashtra is India's second-largest state, covering western parts of central India. The state's capital is Mumbai, India's largest city and financial capital. Maharashtra has 48 seats in the Lok Sabha, and voters will go to the polls in the first three rounds of voting from...