The Tally Room

The first round of voting in the world's largest election will take place in just over two weeks. Indian politics is far too big and complex to cover on a national level, so I thought I'd start doing posts on the election in individual...

Via FiveThirtyEight, there's an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal outlining efforts to effectively abolish the Electoral College in the US without changing the constitution. This approach, called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, would see states pass legislation committing them to a binding...

I'm avoiding making personal comment on the worth of particular candidates or using my internal knowledge within the NSW Greens to comment on the Senate preselection, so I'm just restricting myself to posting information easily available on the internet. In addition to NSW Greens MLC...

*Wait a moment while I clear away the cobwebs* Hello all and welcome back from the post-Queensland unscheduled week-long break. I thought I'd return to the blog by throwing out some ideas I had late in the campaign for how we can cover future campaigns. Every election...

In celebration of the end of an election campaign, sing along to one of my favourite songs from Keating! the Musical, "Antony Green": http://www.youtube.com/v/7-yZHGEuBwY&hl=en&fs=1

Today's Australian carries an article reporting on fake how-to-vote cards handed out by a "Kristy Burchert"  in Indooroopilly calling Greens MP Ronan Lee a "turncoat" and asking voters to "Just Vote 1". I reported on the flier yesterday morning while voting was going on,...

WINNERS As the results shake out, the biggest winner, of course is Anna Bligh and the ALP. In spite of the party ruling for 18 of the last 20 years, and the last eleven consecutively, the party has emerged relatively unscathed from what appeared to...

So yet again I underestimated traffic, which resulted in the blog again going down overnight. I've had to upgrade to a higher hosting plan. I thought I'd open up the option that, if anyone thinks it's worth donating, I'd appreciate any donations to help...

So it's pretty obvious the ALP has won a fairly solid victory. The LNP has gained seven seats: three in Brisbane (including one from the Greens), two in the Gold Coast, one in Central Queensland and one near Cairns. There are a further four seats...

8:57pm - I'm signing off now. I just posted my electoral maps. 8:36pm - Lawrence Springborg will resign as LNP leader. 8:20pm - By popular demand, here is minor party news: Pauline Hanson is on 21.7% in Beaudesert. The DS4SEQ won 0.95%, which comes out to...