The Tally Room

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...

This is a solo episode, where Ben runs through all the key parts of the story of how and where the NSW Liberal Party failed to nominate almost a third of candidates for the NSW local government elections next month, covering the scale of...

I have been spending the last day updating my council election guides to include the full list of candidates, a summary of who is running and an assessment of the likely outcomes. I have now finished this for all of the councils where Liberals...

Ben is joined by NT political historian Robyn Smith to preview the upcoming Northern Territory general election. We discuss the seats in play, the events of the last four years and what might be coming on election day. This podcast is supported by the Tally...

I wasn't planning to do a blog post until we had the final lists of nominations and I could do all of my usual analysis, but I have been getting a lot of questions today about the scale of the Liberal candidates missing from...

Over the last few days I have been frenetically trying to keep my candidate lists up to date as many candidates announce last minute, and as we started to see official nominations appear on the NSW Electoral Commission website for the September 14 NSW...

South Australia's Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission is due to publish draft boundaries this Thursday, 15 August. The boundaries will be used at the 2026 state election. Electorates need to be drawn so each seat's enrolment is within 10% of the average enrolment as of mid-2024...

We are now less than five weeks away from the NSW local government elections. This year I have profiled the 27 most populous local councils in New South Wales. This covers all councils with a population of 95,000 or more. I've added Tweed and Mid-Coast...

Nominations have closed, and been announced, for this month's Northern Territory election. The main story is the reduction in the field of candidates, with just eighty candidates running for the 25 seats. The main reason for the reduction in ballot size is due to the...

Ben is joined by Chris Terry-Enescu, British psephologist from the Ballot Box podcast, to discuss the implications of the recent UK general election for the electoral system and the party system. Chris mentioned this book: Electoral Shocks This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters...