The Tally Room

In a move right out of the Labor "how to win an election" textbook (just like most of the Bligh campaign), the Australian today features a story by Peter van Onselen reporting on leaked Labor polling showing large swings to the LNP that could...

For my South-East Queensland predictions, check out last night's post. Central Queensland I predict that the ALP will lose three seats to the LNP: Hervey Bay, Keppel and Mirani. This would happen on about 8% swing across the region, with the remaining Labor seats in Mackay...

Unlike Pauline Hanson, there's one independent candidate taking their clothes off, one "Honest" Dave Zwolenski in Mount Coot-tha: http://www.youtube.com/v/gXPDUqbzvz0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

I'm at a candidates' forum in Moggill, and I'll be twittering from the event. You can see them on the right-hand side of the blog.

I'm now in Brisbane, and to kill time on the plane up I took a map of Queensland and flipped the seats I thought would fall. Of course, predictions are always fraught and I'm sure I'll make plenty of mistakes. I'm gonna run through...

In spite of appearances on the blog, I'm not actually dead. I've rather been busy working on more advances for my maps for Queensland election night. I've added a feature whereby, when you click on the electorate label, it provides you with the margin, the...

Former punk rocker and Big Brother pest Aidan McLindon, who is currently the LNP's candidate for Beaudesert, has called for the voting age to be lowered to 17. Most campaigning for lowering the voting age has aimed for the age to be set at...

The Greens have announced a preference deal with the Labor Party. The Greens will receive preferences in Indooroopilly for former Labor MP Ronan Lee, while the ALP will receive Greens preferences in fourteen seats: Ashgrove, Aspley, Barron River, Broadwater, Cleveland, Everton, Gaven, Greenslopes, Mansfield,...

Burdekin is a North Queensland coastal electorate, lying on the coast starting north of the Whitsundays and following the coast to the southern edge of Townsville. Burdekin is a traditional National Party electorate. The seat was one of 11 won by One Nation in 1998....

If this is your first foray into Irish politics, you might want to start by reading this morning's post. Ireland's most successful politician in half a century, Bertie Ahern, announced his resignation as Fianna Fail leader and Taoiseach on 2 April 2008, and soon after...