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2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Merriwa

New England, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 1393

Merriwa School of Arts, Bow St, MERRIWA, NSW, 2329

Votes recorded at this polling place are not the views of all local residents. People can vote away from home; pre-poll and mobile services cover wider populations. These results are separate from Australian Poll participant sentiment.

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Formal votes

800

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

83

9.40% of 883 total ballots.

First preferences

800 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Barnaby JOYCE
The Nationals		44856.00%
Laura HUGHES
Labor		15319.13%
Pavlo SAMIOS
Liberal Democrats		496.13%
Richard THOMAS
Pauline Hanson's One Nation		496.13%
Carol SPARKS
The Greens		324.00%
Natasha LEDGER
Independent		273.38%
Cindy Anne DUNCAN
United Australia Party		222.75%
Matt SHARPHAM
Independent		202.50%

First preferences count the candidate marked first on each formal ballot.

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

800 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Barnaby JOYCE
The Nationals		55569.38%
Laura HUGHES
Labor		24530.63%

TCP distributes preferences to the final two candidates in this electorate. The pair can include independents or minor parties.

Two-party preferred (TPP)

Labor–Coalition comparison · 800 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party24530.63%
Liberal/National Coalition55569.38%

TPP is the AEC’s Labor–Coalition measure even where those parties were not the final two candidates. It must not be substituted for TCP.

Compare with 2025

Merriwa in 2025 has the same AEC polling-place ID.

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Nearby election-day booths

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Geographic overview

Numbers match the list below. Circles: election day; squares: pre-poll; triangles: mobile/hospital teams. 6 of 6 places have source coordinates. Teams can cover many locations; their marker is not their service area.

Polling-place locations; use the equivalent numbered list for detailsMerriwa1Sandy Hollow2Cassilis3Denman4Scone5Scone South6

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Nearby booths by distance

  1. Merriwa — selected polling place
  2. Sandy Hollow, Hunter · 29.7 km · 204 formal votes · Labor TPP 43.63%
  3. Cassilis, New England · 38.5 km · 113 formal votes · Labor TPP 20.35%
  4. Denman, Hunter · 42.0 km · 838 formal votes · Labor TPP 42.84%
  5. Scone, New England · 49.2 km · 1,269 formal votes · Labor TPP 29.79%
  6. Scone South, New England · 49.7 km · 900 formal votes · Labor TPP 30.89%

AEC 2022 final-results CSV downloads · generated 2022-07-19T10:31:27 (source timestamp) · retrieved 7 September 2026. © Commonwealth of Australia 2022, CC BY 4.0. Percentages calculated from AEC counts; no endorsement by AEC.

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