The Tally Room

The Australian Electoral Commission finalised the results of the 2019 federal election last week (now available at results.aec.gov.au) and this included the publication of data showing how primary votes for each candidate flowed on a two-candidate-preferred basis, as well as two-party-preferred flows for each...

In the wake of the federal election you may have missed a story about how the Victorian government is planning to change the way that Victorian local councils are elected, something which will be disastrous for local democracy and has come completely out of...

While we've been focused on the federal election, redistributions have been progressing for the local Legislative Assemblies in both the ACT and the Northern Territory. I blogged about the population numbers in the NT in April, and since then the first draft of the boundaries...

Jim Molan grabbed a lot of attention in the election for his quixotic attempt to be re-elected from the fourth spot on the NSW Liberal/National ticket, despite New South Wales having a relatively low rate of below-the-line voting. He never came close to winning, but...

I received a request earlier this week to consider making a map showing the results of the map in Bass and Braddon, the two electorates in northern Tasmania won by Labor in 2016 and lost in 2019. The map in this post shows the two-candidate-preferred...

As I've been putting together these maps I was particularly interested in seeing what the booth map looked like for the Victorian Greens. There wasn't a consistent story to come out of the election when it comes to swings for the Greens. The Greens...

The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) never receives much attention in federal elections, but I found some interesting trends when I mapped out the results of the recent election, both in terms of the House and the Senate. The ACT received a third seat in the...