2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Forster South

Lyne, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 1588

Council Building, 4 Breese Pde, 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.

Formal votes

1,255

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

120

8.73% of 1,375 total ballots.

First preferences

1,255 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
David GILLESPIE
The Nationals
40632.35%
Alex SIMPSON
Labor
25019.92%
Karl ATTENBOROUGH
The Greens
14411.47%
Joel PUTLAND
United Australia Party
12910.28%
Steve ATTKINS
Independent
1159.16%
Josephine CASHMAN
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
1007.97%
Mark HORNSHAW
Liberal Democrats
614.86%
Joanne PEARCE
Independent
503.98%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

1,255 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
David GILLESPIE
The Nationals
74959.68%
Alex SIMPSON
Labor
50640.32%

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 · 1,255 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party50640.32%
Liberal/National Coalition74959.68%

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 South 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

Numbers match the list below. Select a marker for its results link. Circles: election day; squares: pre-poll; diamonds: mobile/hospital teams. Teams can cover many locations; markers do not show service areas.

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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 South1Forster Keys2Forster East3Tuncurry4Coomba Park5Diamond Beach6Pacific Palms7

Natural Earth public-domain outline, 1:110m. Geographic overview, not street navigation or electorate boundaries. Missing coordinates stay in the list.

Nearby booths by distance

  1. Forster South — selected polling place
  2. Forster Keys, Lyne · 2.2 km · 422 formal votes · Labor TPP 35.55%
  3. Forster East, Lyne · 2.4 km · 341 formal votes · Labor TPP 43.11%
  4. Tuncurry, Lyne · 5.6 km · 1,110 formal votes · Labor TPP 37.03%
  5. Coomba Park, Lyne · 6.4 km · 287 formal votes · Labor TPP 41.81%
  6. Diamond Beach, Lyne · 14.6 km · 506 formal votes · Labor TPP 39.72%
  7. Pacific Palms, Lyne · 14.7 km · 676 formal votes · Labor TPP 49.70%

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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