The Tally Room

Nominations for the NSW local government elections closed on Wednesday, with the ballot draw held yesterday. The Liberal Party, who had been steadily increasing their presence in local government for the last few decades, has withdrawn from seven councils, while Labor and the Greens have...

When 127 NSW local councils go to the polls over the coming weeks, most voters will just get to vote for their local councillors on one ballot. Some others will also get a ballot for a referendum or poll, but there's also a minority...

Ben is joined by Tina Brown, editor of the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Post, to discuss the council elections in Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai. Ku-ring-gai in particular has been one of the most dramatic councils in Sydney, with a 5-5 deadlock on the council being resolved by the...

The final boundaries for the Victorian state redistribution were released last Thursday. It's taken me a few days but I've now finished making my new map and updating my redistribution estimates. I won't do much to analyse the changes in this post. You can see...

This is the second episode in our NSW local council election series. Today I'm joined by Anthony Caruso, political analyst for Triple H FM radio, a community radio station in northern Sydney. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room's supporters on Patreon. If you find...

I have been limiting my focus for the upcoming NSW council elections on the 25 most populous councils, 24 of which have elections this year. Amongst these councils, one council stands out from the rest: Ku-ring-gai. It's the only council where none of the major parties...

Australia has a party system. Each state has its own party system, which usually closely resembles the federal system but with its own variety. And in many local councils a local party system exists. It may have familiar features, but each works a bit...

This is the first in a series of podcasts with local experts about various major local councils in New South Wales in the lead-up to December's council elections. Today is Eric Kontos from South West Voice discussing the council elections in Camden, Campbelltown and Liverpool. This...

Throughout the most recent outbreak of COVID-19 in New South Wales there has been a lack of information about how the election process would be adapted to deal with the risk of infection, apart from postponing the election for three months. The Electoral Commission had...