The Tally Room

Voters in Victoria will be voting today in their state election - except, that is, for those who have already voted, in record numbers. As of Thursday night, 1,184,095 early votes had been cast. This is already well ahead of 2014, when a total of...

In this week's podcast Ben is joined by Tom Clement from Geeklections and Tim Colebatch. We discussed the Victorian upper house race in depth, followed by a summary of the Victorian state election campaign. Tom's analysis of the group voting tickets Ben's blog about the...

Today is one year since the announcement of the result in the marriage law postal survey, and I have a special podcast episode focusing on that process. I interviewed Simon Copland and Dr Liz Allen on Tuesday at a conference about the anniversary at the...

The group voting tickets were released on Sunday, showing how each party will direct its preferences for votes cast above-the-line in each region for the Victorian Legislative Council. For those still catching up, this is basically the same system used for the Senate up to...

Nominations closed today for the Victorian state election. In this post I'll run through the numbers on how many people are running, and from what parties, and where. Check out this Google spreadsheet with a list of all 507 lower house candidates. Thanks to Nick Casmirri...

Nominations will close tomorrow for registered political parties running in the Victorian state election, with independents having until Friday to nominate. The Liberal Party today submitted their bulk nominations, but failed to nominate a candidate for the inner city seats of Brunswick, Melbourne, Northcote and...

Kevin Bonham and I have just put together a bonus episode to discuss the Tasmanian council elections, focusing on the results of the Hobart City Council race and the features of the Tasmanian council voting system. Read Kevin's live blog from the Tasmanian council elections...

In this episode, I talk to El Gibbs and Paddy Manning about the Victorian election, with a particular focus on inner-city Greens contests. This was the first episode recorded at the studios of 2SER radio in Sydney. Thanks to them for the help with the...