The Tally Room

There will be five elections held in 2024 that I am planning to profile in depth. I've now finished my first of those five guides. Queensland's local government elections will be held in March 2024. The City of Brisbane is of particular interest. It's the...

Ben is joined by Professor Matthew Shugart from UC Davis to discuss how the electoral system influences the party system. We discuss the effective number of parties measure, and the seat product model, which uses the size of the parliamentary assembly and the district...

Yet another by-election was triggered yesterday, in addition to the Fadden and Rockingham by-elections. The Victorian state seat of Warrandyte will be going back to the polls later this year after Ryan Smith announced his retirement. The Liberal Party holds Warrandyte by a 4.2% margin,...

There will be a state by-election coming up soon for the Western Australian seat of Rockingham. Rockingham is at the southern fringe of Perth, and has been held since 1996 by Mark McGowan. McGowan announced his resignation as premier and local member on Monday. McGowan won...

39 Victorian councils are currently undergoing reviews of their electoral structure - the number of councillors, number of councillors per ward and the exact boundaries of those wards. Those reviews are the conclusion of a process kicked off prior to the 2020 election, when...

The draft boundaries for the next Northern Territory Legislative Assembly election in 2024 were released yesterday. Changes were mostly restricted to the Darwin-Palmerston area, and no seats have changed hands. There was just one change outside of the northern urban area. An area around Timber...

I've now finished my dataset for the 2023 NSW state election and I've added it to the data repository. The repository now has data for four successive NSW state elections, in addition to seven Queensland elections, five Victorian elections, six Western Australian elections, six South...

The draft electoral boundaries for the next ACT Legislative Assembly election were released this morning. You can find the report here, and the map of the boundaries here. Two of the five electorates were left untouched, while a population in the deficit in the southern...