A place where votes are counted in an election.
we'll cross live to the tally room for updates
Example sentencesExamples
- The coalition immediately slashed the corporation's budget by $66 million, despite the senator's famously promising on the tally room floor that they wouldn't.
- Once upon a time, the tally room was the only place you could get an overall picture of the progress of counting in the election.
- Far away from the tally rooms and the victory parties, many South Africans are still living in poverty.
- He told a great story about being at the tally room during the last election call and being suicidally depressed.
- I am bitterly disappointed that they won't be covering the tally room.
- He and his wife have just arrived here in the tally room in Canberra.
- There's a discrepancy between the accounts of their observers and scrutineers at a local level, and the figures that appeared at the central tally room.
- They seem unlikely to look forward to visiting the tally room this September.
- The decline of the tally room has nothing to do with perceptions of how close the election is going to be.
- I can tell you what it was like on the floor of the tally room just three years later.