The Tally Room

As the economic crisis worsens and speculation of an early election in Ireland increases, it seemed about time to give Australian psephologists a crash-course in Irish politics. I'll follow this up with another post about the possible early election later today. Ireland is probably the...

Via Public Polity, the Australian is full of speculation about a possible deal that would see the ALP preference Greens MP (and former Labor MP) Ronan Lee in the inner-Brisbane electorate of Indooroopilly. The Greens' public position has been that the ALP will not receive...

Chatsworth is the ALP's most marginal seat in Queensland, lying in the outer eastern suburbs of Brisbane. The seat covers most of the centre of the federal electorate of Bonner. The electorate is split between two wards of Brisbane City Council that clearly lay...

A brief note to say that a new Galaxy poll has come out tonight, giving a 51-49 lead to the Liberal National Party over Labor. It only  works out to be a one-percent swing on both the primary vote and the two-party-preferred figure from...

Via Daily Kos, former US Ambassador to Canberra Tom Schieffer has announced that he is considering a bid for Governor of Texas as a Democrat. The Texas gubernatorial race is turning into a fierce race on the Republican side between incumbent Rick Perry and...

It's a slightly old story, but the European Green Party, the umbrella party for all Green parties across the continent, have condemned the Mexican Greens for their position on the death penalty, and opened the possibility of Mexico's Green Party being expelled from the...

In today's Australian, the regular bimonthly state poll for New South Wales shows a swing back to Labor from a catastrophic low of 26% in December 2008. Labor is up from 26% to 30%, while the Coalition drops from 43% to 42%. The Greens have...

Via Possum, we find that Essential Research released a poll yesterday including questions about various issues, and one in particular has piked my interest. Thinking about the Government’s proposed emissions trading scheme (called the carbon pollution reduction scheme) to address climate change by which the...

A few bits of interesting information today: Former AFL footballer, pornstar, mayoral candidate and general Gold Coast identity Warwick Capper will be standing in the south-east seat of Beaudesert, the same electorate that Pauline Hanson will be contesting. Capper, who formerly lived in the electorate,...

Tomorrow will see the first major elections in Europe since the onset of the global economic crisis. Up to four million voters in Spain will head to the polls to elect governments in the Basque and Galicia regions. Spanish politics is fairly diverse, particularly at...