The Tally Room

Former Liberal minister Alan Tudge announced yesterday that he will be stepping down from parliament, thus triggering a by-election for his Melbourne-area seat of Aston. Check out the guide to the Aston by-election Aston is one of only three Liberal seats held in Melbourne proper after...

The NSW upper house is elected to represent the whole state, proportionally. I have been wondering for a little while - in the absence of any geographical divisions, where do these members tend to come from? Are certain parts of the state under-represented or...

While there has been a lot of focus on the impending referendum to create the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice at the federal level, South Australia is on track to legislate a similar body on a shorter time frame. A Voice by its nature...

We're now seven weeks out from the NSW state election, and it seemed like a good time to take down the paywall for my guide to that election. The guide features profiles of all 93 electorates, along with a profile of the Legislative Council contest. You...

I have just finished an update of my Legislative Assembly candidate list and I thought I'd pop it up here for everyone to take a look. Over the next day or two I'll make sure every seat guide has its candidate list updated too. Check...

In the lead up to the state election, there have been quite a few prominent MPs have announced their retirement, including a number in key marginal seats. This prompted me to collect data on how many members have retired at each election over the past...

Yesterday's post analysed the intra-state trends in terms of enrolment for each NSW federal electorate. Today I'm looking at the trends in Victoria and Western Australia. These states are slightly simpler since we know they will be losing and gaining a seat respectively, and...

Federal redistributions will commence this year in three states. Victoria will lose a seat, Western Australia will gain a seat, and New South Wales will also have a redistribution. A redistribution will commence next month for New South Wales with its current 47 seats,...

After every election, there is a process to determine how many electorates each state and territory is entitled to at the following federal election. That process will take place in the middle of 2023. The process will utilise the latest population estimates from the...

I spent a lot of energy before the Victorian election talking about below the line voting - encouraging voters to use the method and analysing its impact on previous elections. We now have all the data to assess how things went. While the below-the-line...