Election to be called – open thread

It appears that the prime minister, Scott Morrison, is on his way to visit the governor-general today to call the Australian federal election, apparently for May 21. I’m actually in the inner south of Canberra today, watching the running festival. Feel free to use this blog...

Podcast #68: Polling and the federal election

Ben is joined by Peter Lewis from the Essential Poll to talk about the current state of polling in the lead up to the federal election, and to discuss the federal seat of Page. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room's supporters on Patreon....

Federal election guide unlocked

It looks likely that the federal election will be called this coming weekend, for the 14th or 21st of May. With that, I've now unlocked my full federal election guide. It features profiles of all 151 House races and the eight Senate contests, including history,...

PNG creates new electorates

Papua New Guinea's parliament has recently passed the first successfully redistribution in the nation since 1977. The decision will see seven new seats created at the 2022 election, and a further six in 2027. While it does slightly reduce the overall amount of malapportionment,...

Don’t let single-member electorates off the hook

There's been a lot of discussion over the last few days about the Labor preselection for my local federal seat of Parramatta, where sitting Labor MP Julie Owens is retiring after 18 years. Parramatta is a very diverse electorate, which large numbers of voters...

Podcast #67: SA election results

Ben is joined by Rob Manwaring to discuss the results of last weekend's state election in South Australia. 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 subscribe to this podcast...

SA election the next day

I drafted this blog post this morning but unfortunately due to some technical problems the website has been down most of the day. I've tried to update all the data but the map is based on this morning's data and I may have missed...

SA election night live

10:41 - I'm going to end the live blog here but I'll pull together another post tomorrow and will have a results podcast on Tuesday morning. At the moment it looks like Labor will win a majority and could win a few more seats...

SA election day open thread

Polls have just opened for election day in South Australia's state election. I'll be back with a blog post at 6pm SA time, but feel free to use this as an open thread.

The seats to watch in the SA election

In the lead up to Saturday's election, I thought I would run through seats worth watching. If you look at the pendulum, there are a handful of seats with slim margins. The Liberal Party holds four seats by a slim margin. The Liberal margins in King,...