The Tally Room

With the addition of iVotes on Wednesday night, the number of races in play is starting to shrink and we are getting closer to the final primary vote figures for each council race. In this post I'm going to run through each of the 24...

The withdrawal of the Liberal Party from a number of large Sydney councils has unsurprisingly led to a decline in the Sydney-wide Liberal vote, while Labor and the Greens have produced their highest primary vote in Greater Sydney since 2004. It may well be...

Up until this point, most of my analysis of the NSW council elections has been contained to one council. In one sense this makes sense - each local council is its own little polity and has its own stories. Part of what I find fascinating...

Before I zoom out, I thought I would also highlight some of the smaller councils that grabbed my interest. There are simply too many councils to cover them all, but these are a few that have been sent to me. Byron The Greens have held the...

After some spotty live results earlier in the night, I turned last night's liveblog into a run through of the end-of-night results in some of the biggest councils, covering Bayside to Lake Macquarie alphabetically before collapsing to bed at 1am. Here I go continuing...

1:03 - Okay I'm going to have to leave this here. I'll come back in the morning and finish the run of the board and then look at blog posts summarising the results more generally. 1:02 - Lake Macquarie mayor Kay Fraser has been re-elected...

This is the last in my series of posts looking at various trends in NSW council elections. I wrote recently about how poor turnout is for Western Australia's voluntary council elections, but other states tend to have higher levels. Turnout for the 2016 Brisbane City...

The proportional voting system used for New South Wales councils doesn't tend to produce huge one-party majorities in most areas. It often results in no party having control, and when they do have a majority it is usually a slim one. This means that there...

Ben is joined by Roberta Ryan, Professor of Local Government at the University of Newcastle, to discuss some broader trends in NSW local government in the lead-up to this weekend's election, including council amalgamations and the role of political parties. This podcast is supported by...