The Tally Room

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...

There is one unique feature of tomorrow's by-elections in four NSW state electorates: postal ballots have been sent to every registered voter. Standard practice requires voters to request a ballot, but the problems with iVote at the December council elections prompted the NSW Electoral...

Ben was joined by Stewart Jackson to discuss this weekend's by-elections in the NSW state electorates of Bega, Monaro, Strathfield and Willoughby. 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...

Nominations were declared yesterday morning for the four state by-elections to be held in NSW on February 12. I've now posted the candidate lists on the seat guides, which you can see at the links below: Bega Monaro Strathfield Willoughby I thought there were a few...

I have recently completed my latest election guide, covering the 2022 state election in Victoria, which is due for 26 November. The guide features profiles of all 88 Legislative Assembly electorates and the eight Legislative Council regions. Each guide features a number of maps along...

A new feature of the NSW local government electoral system is being introduced right now across many NSW councils, finally implementing a legislative change made in 2014. This change will see vacancies filled by countback of the original ballot papers, rather than a by-election....