The Tally Room

So it looks like Canada, only six weeks after an election saw a swing to the Conservative minority government, is headed towards another left-of-centre government. Today the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party signed an agreement to form a coalition government, with the support...

I've got a few more council results to add. In Darebin, apparently the Greens have won a seat in Rucker Ward, and are in with a chance in Cazaly Ward. We haven't heard anything about La Trobe ward, but there doesn't seem to be...

So I'm in the City of Melbourne counting room at Victoria University on Flinders Street and I'll give you the current lay of the land. As it stands for Council, Jetter, Oke (the Greens candidate), and Louey are the only ones with a quota. Ong...

I'm going to spend some time today at the count for the City of Melbourne, but I thought I'd start by updating on some interesting races. In Port Phillip's Junction Ward, Greens candidate John Middleton polled 20.25% of the primary vote, and our scrutineers indicate...

So I'm calling it a night. There may be a few more results tonight, but most of the outstanding results have yet to start counting. I'll continue reporting results tomorrow and Monday. For now, I've made these maps of wards in Victoria colour-coded according...

You can look up results alphabetically by clicking here. 9:31pm - People have posted a bunch of results about results in Manningham, Melbourne and Brimbank, where the sitting councillor in Harvester Ward retired and the new Greens candidate managed a quota in her own right....

I'm sitting in Sydney airport about to board a flight to Melbourne. I'll be liveblogging results as they come in from Victorian Greens scrutineers today, tomorrow and probably Monday too. Unlike the NSWEC, which implemented a Virtual Tally Room for the first time for...

I've updated the electoral maps for the US House of Representatives on my "maps" page. There remain four seats up for grabs. OH-15 and CA-04 remain too close to call, although in both cases the Republicans hold slight leads. LA-01 and LA-06 had their...

I know, I know, I haven't been keeping up with the blog since the NZ election. After an intense launch period, with elections in Canada, the USA, New Zealand, the ACT and a number of by-elections, I've taken some time off, but I will...

New Zealand has experienced a huge amount of change in its party system over the last two decades. The resignation of Jim Anderton from the Labour Party in 1989, which resulted in the formation of the Alliance in 1991, was followed by the formation...