All polling places in Lyne

2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Forster East

Lyne, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 1587

Forster Public School, 110 Head St, FORSTER, NSW, 2428

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

341

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

29

7.84% of 370 total ballots.

First preferences

341 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
David GILLESPIE
The Nationals		12336.07%
Alex SIMPSON
Labor		7421.70%
Karl ATTENBOROUGH
The Greens		4513.20%
Steve ATTKINS
Independent		349.97%
Joel PUTLAND
United Australia Party		226.45%
Mark HORNSHAW
Liberal Democrats		164.69%
Josephine CASHMAN
Pauline Hanson's One Nation		154.40%
Joanne PEARCE
Independent		123.52%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

341 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
David GILLESPIE
The Nationals		19456.89%
Alex SIMPSON
Labor		14743.11%

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 · 341 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party14743.11%
Liberal/National Coalition19456.89%

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

Forster East in 2025 has the same AEC polling-place ID.

No continuous trend is shown because:

Nearby election-day booths

Straight-line distance within 50 km, using AEC coordinates. Nearby booths may serve different electorates and voter groups.

Map of nearby booths

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Geographic overview

Numbers match the list below. Circles: election day; squares: pre-poll; triangles: mobile/hospital teams. 7 of 7 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 detailsForster East1Forster South2Tuncurry3Forster Keys4Coomba Park5Diamond Beach6Hallidays Point7

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Nearby booths by distance

  1. Forster East — selected polling place
  2. Forster South, Lyne · 2.4 km · 1,255 formal votes · Labor TPP 40.32%
  3. Tuncurry, Lyne · 3.6 km · 1,110 formal votes · Labor TPP 37.03%
  4. Forster Keys, Lyne · 4.2 km · 422 formal votes · Labor TPP 35.55%
  5. Coomba Park, Lyne · 8.0 km · 287 formal votes · Labor TPP 41.81%
  6. Diamond Beach, Lyne · 12.4 km · 506 formal votes · Labor TPP 39.72%
  7. Hallidays Point, Lyne · 12.9 km · 828 formal votes · Labor TPP 38.41%

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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