The Tally Room

I last updated my Victorian state election candidate list at the start of October, so it seemed about time for another update, about two weeks out from nominations closing. You can see the full list here, and candidate lists including websites have been posted in...

Ben is joined by Michael Kabuni to wrap up this year's Papua New Guinea election. We talk about levels of violence and election disruption, the highest number of seats for a single party for 40 years, and the formation of the new government. This podcast...

South Australian voters are currently going to the polls to elect their local councillors for the next four years. Voting takes place by mail, with polls closing on November 10. Incidentally this means South Australian council elections should continue to closely mirror Tasmania's council...

Ben is joined by Tasmanian psephologist Kevin Bonham to discuss the upcoming Tasmanian council elections - the electoral systems, the emergence of local tickets, and they then dive into the specific campaigns for Hobart City Council and Clarence City Council. Check out Kevin's guides to...

The NSW Labor conference was held over the weekend, and as part of the conference there was a ballot to choose the ticket for the NSW Legislative Council at next March's election. Before this result, I didn't really know how this sort of thing worked....

There's a by-election taking place today in the West ward of Ryde council in the northern suburbs of Sydney. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of former Labor mayor and newly elected Bennelong MP Jerome Laxale, who quit to focus his efforts on...

Earlier today it was announced that Greens MP Jamie Parker is retiring from his seat of Balmain at next March's state election. This is an unusual event because the Greens have never had an MP holding a single-member electorate who has retired of their own...

I've recently finished adding a new feature to my seat guides for the Victorian and New South Wales state elections and I wanted to mention it. During the federal election, I produced charts showing how the two-party-preferred vote in each seat has shifted in each...

In yesterday's blog post I analysed the statistics from my latest Victorian election candidate update, but I wanted to pull out one thing to focus on. There are 32 independent candidates who have been announced so far. That's not a particularly high number (102 ran...

I've recently completed an update of my candidate list for the Victorian state election, and I'm now publishing the list for the first time. The list now includes 296 Legislative Assembly candidates and 89 Legislative Council candidates in 61 separate groups across the 8...