The Tally Room

After the Country Liberal Party clinched victory over the Greens in the seat of Fannie Bay, the Greens have surprisingly won the neighbouring seat of Nightcliff over former Labor chief minister Natasha Fyles. The NTEC has only now conducted a preferential count between Labor and...

Voters in ten NSW local councils won't just be electing councillors this month, but will also be voting on questions put on the ballot by their council. In eight councils, they'll be considering binding referendums that would change the council's constitution. In two other...

When I was compiling my candidate lists I was keeping track of what was happening with incumbent councillors. This has allowed me (at least for the councils I am closely following) to calculate the proportion of seats where the councillor is running for re-election. I...

The South Australian state redistribution was released two weeks ago, but with all of the other elections I have only now had time to complete my analysis. This wasn't helped by the SA Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission (EDBC) not publishing a shapefile. I had...

A by-election will be coming up soon for the NSW state seat of Pittwater, at the northern end of the Northern Beaches, after sitting Liberal MP Rory Amon was charged with ten sexual assault offences earlier today. Amon also resigned from the Liberal Party. We...

Ben is joined by the ABC's Thomas Morgan to discuss the results of the NT election. We talk about the CLP's big victory, how northern Darwin has flipped back after being solidly Labor for 23 years, and the rise of the Greens and independents...

Last night's election results were very decisive, and the result became clear quite early on. In hindsight I realise I never bothered to actually call the result on my live blog. The CLP has won a substantial victory - they currently lead in 16 seats...

11:24 - I'm gonna end the live blog here. I'll be back in the morning with another blog post. 11:20 - The addition of some pre-poll votes in Casuarina has pushed the CLP into the lead. I suspect they will stay there. And the addition...

Polls have just opened in the Northern Territory. I won't be blogging during the day, but I'll be back at 6pm ACST to cover the results. If you're looking for something to do today, you can check out my election guide.

This blog is a follow-up to my post from November 2021, which tracked where the Labor, Liberal and Greens parties had run across the Greater Sydney region from 2004 to 2021. At the end of this post I've added posts showing which Greater Sydney...