The Tally Room

8:24pm - We got a final batch of postal votes and it appears we're done for tonight. Labor's vote has dropped from 51% to just under 30%, while the CLP has dropped from 31.4% to just 16.3%. The Greens have narrowly outpolled the CLP,...

I published my Brisbane City Council election guide at the end of 2019 and have been focused on other work since then, but I've returned to the topic to do an update of the candidates who are running, which I have published for you...

Another election in Queensland has been scheduled for the final weekend in March, with a second state by-election announced for that date. March 28 is already the election date for council elections across Queensland, including the Brisbane City megacouncil. It was also announced as the...

This post draws on analysis in my chapter in Morrison's Miracle, a forthcoming book from ANU Press and Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia about the 2019 federal election. Most seats in the House of Representatives at the 2019 election were still won by one...

This post draws on analysis in my chapter in Morrison's Miracle, a forthcoming book from ANU Press and Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia about the 2019 federal election. One of the most significant ways in which our voting system is changing over time is...

I have a chapter coming up in Morrison's Miracle, which is the definitive book covering every aspect of the 2019 federal election. My chapter will cover the results in the House of Representatives, as I did in the 2016 election book Double Disillusion. This book is the seventeenth...

The first vote of the year will be coming up at the end of February, when voters in the Darwin-area electorate of Johnston will elect a member for the Northern Territory's assembly. The seat was vacated by Ken Vowles at the end of 2019. Vowles...

Local councils in New South Wales will go to the polls in September this year to elect new councillors for the next four years. I have just finished putting together my map of ward boundaries for those councils that use wards to elect their members. 49...