The Tally Room

Former Liberal leader David Speirs resigned from parliament today, after his house was raised by police in relation to a video published last month, not long after his resignation from the leadership. I have now published my guide for the Black by-election, which I expect...

Ben is joined by Dennis Atkins to preview the upcoming Queensland state election. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. You can listen to an ad-free version of this podcast if you...

This is a very quick blog post as I am catching up on stuff that has been happening while moving house. On the very day that I moved house, nominations were announced for the ACT election. I won't be doing a lot on this specific...

4:00pm Tuesday - We are now approaching the end of the declaration process. In Ryde, the third Liberal won the final seat in Ryde West, giving the Liberals a total of eight seats against three Labor, one Greens and Roy Maggio. A very solid result...

The maps and data for the final WA federal redistribution were released on Tuesday this last week but unfortunately I was busy at the time packing up to move house the next day. I have now had a chance to update the analysis I...

As of this morning, we have almost reached the end of the NSW council election count. It appears that all election day and pre-poll booths have been fully data entered, and they are just waiting for one more day of postal and declaration votes...

This blog post will be used to track the close counts for the 26 big partisan councils. I'm going to be busy this week packing for a house move so won't be doing big updates in one go, but I'll update a council at...

Ben is joined by Leo Puglisi from 6 News to analyse the results of the NSW local government elections. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. You can listen to an ad-free...

This blog post includes a summary of the state of the race for the 27 councils with a population of 95,000 or more. The first few were also posted in the live blog overnight but for convenience I've included them here again. I have a...

12:20 - Okay I'm going to stop here, and do another call of the board in the morning. Central Coast - 12:19 - It looks like Labor has lost their majority, and possibly there will be a clear conservative majority. The conservative independents who benefited from...