The Tally Room

Polls have just opened for election day for the Queensland council elections and two state by-elections. Please feel free to use this post to discuss the election. I'll have a liveblog at 6pm Queensland time. The ECQ has announced that 1.2 million people have already...

We are now just three days away from the Queensland council elections (along with two state by-elections), and there is more and more evidence that record numbers of voters are casting ballots before election day. Firstly, the final number of applications for postal votes was...

We've now got our first case of an Australian election delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Tasmania holds elections to its upper house on the first Saturday in May every year for 2-3 seats. This year those elections for Huon in the south-west of the...

Two polls were published yesterday in the Courier Mail pointing towards possibly interesting results in the two Queensland state by-elections due for this Saturday. In the Labor seat of Bundamba, which on paper is a safe seat, the poll found One Nation in second place, and...

Ben is joined by Glenn Kefford and Chris Salisbury from the University of Queensland to discuss the Queensland state by-elections and the City of Brisbane election, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these elections. We recorded this episode remotely from each...

Ben is joined again by Alexis Pink from 4ZZZ to discuss elections for the councils surrounding the City of Brisbane: Gold Coast, Ipswich, Moreton Bay, Logan and Sunshine Coast. You can subscribe to this podcast using this RSS feed in your podcast app of choice, but should...

Applications for postal voting close at 7pm on Monday night. Click here to apply for a vote. Elections are due in Queensland in less than two weeks. Every council in Queensland goes to the polls on Saturday, March 28, along with two state by-elections for...