The Tally Room

A common talking point when discussing Australia's electoral system is that it eliminates the need for tactical voting. This is usually true, but there is a narrow set of cases in which tactical voting can be a relevant factor, and there may be more...

Nominations in the South Australian state election closed on Monday. The near-death of SA-Best has seen a decline in the number of candidates running in the lower house, but more parties are running than in 2018. There are also a lot more groups running...

In this episode, Ben introduces the South Australian state election with Tom Richardson from InDaily. Check out the Tally Room guide to the South Australian election, now free for all to access. The abolition of the South Australian redistribution "fairness clause" was discussed in...

We're less than three weeks out from the next South Australian state election, and I'll be covering that election in more depth over that time. I've now unlocked the guide to the state election, so anyone can read any of the seat guides. I'll be posting...

I have just finished a big update of my list of candidates running for the House of Representatives at the upcoming federal election, and I thought it was a good time to share this list. The most interesting revelation is that the proportion of candidates...

The NSW Electoral Commission is currently in court seeking to have three council elections thrown out - not because of any failures on the part of any of the electoral participants, but because of the failure of the Commission's own voting systems, which resulted...

Saturday saw the first counting of postal votes, a week on from the four by-elections in New South Wales. The postal vote data in all four by-elections confirmed the pre-existing voting trends. In three by-elections, the leading candidate outperformed their pre-existing lead on pre-poll...

Ben is joined by William Bowe from the Poll Bludger to discuss Saturday's by-elections in New South Wales, with a particular focus on how we analyse election results as increasing numbers of voters opt to use postal and pre-poll options. This podcast is supported by...

Last night's counting for the four New South Wales state by-elections probably set some records for the smallest proportion of the total vote to be counted. There remains a large number of postal votes to be counted, along with quite a few pre-poll votes. In...

11:56pm - I'm going to finish up here. I was hoping to get some more pre-poll figures from Bega but I expect that could take a while longer. Hopefully in the morning we will have more data and I can do a post then. Overall...