2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Hawks Nest

Lyne, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 1597

Hawks Nest Community Hall, 71-73 Booner St, HAWKS NEST, NSW, 2324

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

793

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

77

8.85% of 870 total ballots.

First preferences

793 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
David GILLESPIE
The Nationals
35244.39%
Alex SIMPSON
Labor
20926.36%
Josephine CASHMAN
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
597.44%
Karl ATTENBOROUGH
The Greens
556.94%
Mark HORNSHAW
Liberal Democrats
496.18%
Joanne PEARCE
Independent
354.41%
Joel PUTLAND
United Australia Party
253.15%
Steve ATTKINS
Independent
91.13%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

793 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
David GILLESPIE
The Nationals
49262.04%
Alex SIMPSON
Labor
30137.96%

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 · 793 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party30137.96%
Liberal/National Coalition49262.04%

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

Hawks Nest 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 detailsHawks Nest1Tea Gardens2Nelson Bay Central3Shoal Bay4Nelson Bay5Corlette6Salamander7

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. Hawks Nest — selected polling place
  2. Tea Gardens, Lyne · 2.1 km · 1,482 formal votes · Labor TPP 34.82%
  3. Nelson Bay Central, Paterson · 5.9 km · 508 formal votes · Labor TPP 55.12%
  4. Shoal Bay, Paterson · 6.2 km · 559 formal votes · Labor TPP 49.73%
  5. Nelson Bay, Paterson · 6.5 km · 705 formal votes · Labor TPP 44.68%
  6. Corlette, Paterson · 8.0 km · 852 formal votes · Labor TPP 40.26%
  7. Salamander, Paterson · 9.4 km · 514 formal votes · Labor TPP 50.00%

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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