The Tally Room

There's been a lot of talk about double dissolutions in recent weeks, with the federal Labor government threatening an early election in particular over the Senate's blocking of the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) legislation. I think there's a bit of confusion about the implications...

The Australian Electoral Commission made it official last week: the House of Representatives will shrink by one seat. New South Wales and Victoria will each lose one seat, while Western Australia will regain one seat. None of this was a surprise. We've known for months...

Ben is joined by American political scientist Jack Santucci to discuss the history of the single transferable vote electoral system and its implementation in numerous American cities in the early 20th century. Jack's book More Parties or No Parties explores this period and advances a...

I wrote a quick blog post yesterday after the release of the draft electoral map for the next Western Australian state election. Now I'm back with a more detailed analysis of what has changed. I've included a map comparing the old and new boundaries,...

The draft electoral boundaries for the next Western Australian state election were released overnight. One regional electorate has been abolished, making room for one new electorate in the outer south-east of Perth. The seats of Moore and North-West Central have been merged into a new...

The Northern Territory Electoral Commission published its draft boundaries for the 2024 Legislative Assembly election back in May, but that process will now have to start over due to tremendous enrolment growth in some parts of the Territory in recent months in the lead...

11:31 - I'm finished for the night. We are still waiting for the two-party-preferred figures from Helensvale pre-poll centre and otherwise have all the results we'd expect tonight. The 2PP swing is sitting on 1.7% at the moment. Really quite modest. I probably won't be...

Victoria is continuing the process of reviewing its local council wards, and since my last update in May, we have started to see proposed ward boundaries for those councils that are being forced to switch to single-member wards following legislative change in 2020 which...

Ben is joined by Kevin Bonham to discuss three upcoming by-elections in Fadden, Rockingham and Warrandyte, and for a brief update on other election news - the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters hearing on expanding the size of parliament, the potential for an...