2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Merewether South

Newcastle, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 2709

St Augustines Anglican Church Hall, Winsor St, MEREWETHER, NSW, 2291

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

886

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

33

3.59% of 919 total ballots.

First preferences

886 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Katrina WARK
Liberal
33537.81%
Sharon CLAYDON
Labor
28632.28%
Charlotte McCABE
The Greens
19421.90%
Amanda COOK
United Australia Party
222.48%
Mark James WATSON
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
212.37%
William HUSSEY
Informed Medical Options Party
141.58%
Emily BROLLO
Animal Justice Party
101.13%
Garth PYWELL
Australian Federation Party
40.45%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

886 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Sharon CLAYDON
Labor
47653.72%
Katrina WARK
Liberal
41046.28%

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 · 886 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party47653.72%
Liberal/National Coalition41046.28%

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

Merewether 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 detailsMerewether South1Merewether2The Junction3Hamilton South4Beaumont Park5Merewether Heights6Cooks Hill South7

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. Merewether South — selected polling place
  2. Merewether, Newcastle · 0.4 km · 862 formal votes · Labor TPP 62.30%
  3. The Junction, Newcastle · 0.7 km · 1,881 formal votes · Labor TPP 62.68%
  4. Hamilton South, Newcastle · 0.9 km · 1,635 formal votes · Labor TPP 60.55%
  5. Beaumont Park, Newcastle · 1.3 km · 545 formal votes · Labor TPP 70.28%
  6. Merewether Heights, Newcastle · 1.4 km · 1,348 formal votes · Labor TPP 57.64%
  7. Cooks Hill South, Newcastle · 1.8 km · 1,249 formal votes · Labor TPP 68.78%

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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