The Tally Room

The latest guides – May 4

Ben Raue - May 4, 2018

The front of this website has been quiet recently, but I've been regularly posting a new federal seat guide every day, so be sure to check in occasionally. The ten most recent guides are listed on the right-hand side of the front page. Perth ...

Tim Hammond resigns, triggering by-election in Perth

Ben Raue - May 2, 2018

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We are inching ever closer to a potential federal election, but some news today means we will soon have a federal by-election, in a seat no-one expected. First-term Labor MP Tim Hammond, who represents the federal seat of Perth, announced he would retire less than...

This week’s guides – April 21

Ben Raue - April 21, 2018

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There are eight new seat guides up on the website since I last updated last Friday. Reid Herbert Cowan Longman Lindsay Griffith Braddon Macquarie These will continue to pop up, one per day, for the next few months.

SA federal redistribution – here is the map

Ben Raue - April 16, 2018

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I've now finished the draft boundary map for the SA federal redistribution, following on from the draft boundaries released the previous week for Victoria and the ACT. Download the Google Earth map for the draft SA federal boundaries. Remember there is a wide range of electoral...

New federal pendulum after recent redistributions

Ben Raue - April 14, 2018

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Following the release of the draft South Australian redistribution boundaries yesterday, we can now put together a pendulum of all seat margins for the next election. This pendulum uses the actual election margins for New South Wales and Western Australia, and the final post-redistribution...

SA redistribution live

Ben Raue - April 13, 2018

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12:30pm - That's all I'll be posting today. I'll be back on the weekend with an updated pendulum, and will be putting together the map in coming days. 12:26pm - On a primary vote basis in Mayo, the Liberal Party has dropped 1.1%, NXT has...

This week’s guides – April 13

Ben Raue - April 13, 2018

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Since I last posted about this, I've published eight more guides, with the links listed below: Pearce Hasluck Page Bonner Dawson Swan Leichhardt Cowper I’ll keep publishing one guide per day, and you can see the most recent guides on the right-hand sidebar or on...

Double Disillusion – the definitive analysis of the 2016 election out now

Ben Raue - April 12, 2018

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I'm very pleased to plug a new book that has just been published from ANU Press about the 2016 federal election entitled Double Disillusion. The book will be available in hard copy and is also available as a free download. This is the sixteenth edition in...

How should we be naming our federal seats?

Ben Raue - April 11, 2018

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Australian federal electorates follow a fairly unique naming convention. Australian state seats are usually named after geographic locations, which is also common for national electorates in Canada, the UK and New Zealand, while electoral districts in the United States are generally given numerical names. The...

ACT and Victorian redistributions – here are the maps

Ben Raue - April 10, 2018

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I've finished making Google Earth maps for the draft federal boundaries for Victoria and the ACT, and they are now available for download: ACT 2019 Victoria 2019 I've also turned them into interactive maps below the fold, which show the 2016 and 2019 boundaries (you...