The Tally Room

We are now entering the final stages of the Tasmanian election's preference distributions. After all votes were collected, preferences began to be distributed yesterday, with substantial progress yesterday and today. Kevin Bonham has been doing a great job of tracking the preference distributions in his...

So we finally have booth breakdowns of the Tasmanian election results - and for the first time these have been published as spreadsheets (rather than PDFs or image files) which made it much easier to analyse. And they have also finally published the list...

My estimate at the end of Saturday night was that the Liberal Party had won 13 seats, Labor 8 and the Greens one, with three seats still in play: in Bass, Braddon and Franklin. I don't plan to follow these counts in minute detail but...

10:13pm - If you've appreciated my coverage of this election, now would be a good time to think about signing up as a patron. I'll be covering this election further in the coming days, with maps breaking down what happened across the state, and of...

Polls have now opened in the Tasmanian state election. Feel free to use this post to share interesting tidbits or developments throughout the day. There'll be another post at 6pm, although I'll primarily be contributing to the Guardian. If you're looking for something to occupy yourself...

Tasmania's election is coming up this Saturday (check out my guide here!), and two recent polls suggest the campaign has shifted in favour of the Liberal Party. Saturday's Reachtel put the Liberal Party in the lead on 48%, followed by Labor on 32% and the...

The official list of nominations for lower house seats in the South Australian election was published late yesterday afternoon, and I have now updated all 47 seat profiles. 264 candidates nominated, an increase from 204 in 2014. This is due to an increasing number of...

Nominations were announced today for the Tasmanian election. 109 candidates have nominated, with six parties running candidates. This is a drop from 126 candidates running 2014, but it is still more candidates than ran in 2010 or 2006. Labor, Liberal and the Greens are running full...

There will be a state election for the seat of Cottesloe in Western Australia on March 17, to elect a successor to former Liberal premier Colin Barnett. He had announced his retirement in December, with the election date announced yesterday. This election will coincide with...

Federal Labor MP David Feeney has just announced that he will be resigning from his seat of Batman after failing to prove that he had renounced his British citizenship, and won't be contesting the subsequent by-election. It is expected that the race will be between...