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2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Fern Bay

Paterson, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 1870

Fern Bay Community Hall, 8 Vardon Rd, FERN BAY, NSW, 2295

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

1,535

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

83

5.13% of 1,618 total ballots.

First preferences

1,535 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Meryl SWANSON
Labor		60539.41%
Brooke VITNELL
Liberal		59238.57%
Louise IHLEIN
The Greens		1409.12%
Neil TURNER
Pauline Hanson's One Nation		1046.78%
Sonia BAILEY
Liberal Democrats		402.61%
Jason Mark OLBOURNE
United Australia Party		392.54%
Angela KETAS
Informed Medical Options Party		150.98%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

1,535 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Meryl SWANSON
Labor		80852.64%
Brooke VITNELL
Liberal		72747.36%

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 · 1,535 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party80852.64%
Liberal/National Coalition72747.36%

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

Fern Bay in 2025 has the same AEC polling-place ID.

The ID, name, electorate and address match, and coordinates are within 100 metres. This supports a location comparison, not a claim that the same people voted. Redistribution can still alter the surrounding electorate; candidates and parties can change.

Labor TPP: 56.31% in 2025 and 52.64% in 2022; -3.67 percentage points (2022 minus 2025). Each uses that election’s formal-vote denominator.

Use each election’s candidate tables for first preferences and TCP; differing candidate pairs are not a continuous candidate series.

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 detailsFern Bay1Stockton2Mayfield East3Carrington4Mayfield5Tighes Hill6Wickham7

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. Fern Bay — selected polling place
  2. Stockton, Newcastle · 4.6 km · 1,435 formal votes · Labor TPP 66.83%
  3. Mayfield East, Newcastle · 5.1 km · 1,506 formal votes · Labor TPP 78.88%
  4. Carrington, Newcastle · 5.3 km · 1,408 formal votes · Labor TPP 77.27%
  5. Mayfield, Newcastle · 5.8 km · 1,214 formal votes · Labor TPP 76.19%
  6. Tighes Hill, Newcastle · 6.4 km · 352 formal votes · Labor TPP 82.67%
  7. Wickham, Newcastle · 6.4 km · 565 formal votes · Labor TPP 71.86%

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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