2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Balmain East

Grayndler, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 2731

Nicholson Street Public School, 23 Nicholson St, BALMAIN EAST, NSW, 2041

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

872

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

31

3.43% of 903 total ballots.

First preferences

872 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Anthony ALBANESE
Labor
47654.59%
Ben ZHANG
Liberal
18020.64%
Rachael JACOBS
The Greens
14816.97%
David Bruce SMITH
United Australia Party
222.52%
Sarina KILHAM
Independent
212.41%
Paul HENSELIN
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
141.61%
James HAGGERTY
FUSION: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency
91.03%
Michael Armando DELLO-IACOVO
Animal Justice Party
20.23%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

872 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Anthony ALBANESE
Labor
58967.55%
Rachael JACOBS
The Greens
28332.45%

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 · 872 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party62471.56%
Liberal/National Coalition24828.44%

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

Balmain 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

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 detailsBalmain East1Balmain Central2Millers Point3Birchgrove East4Pyrmont5Birchgrove6Rozelle East7

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. Balmain East — selected polling place
  2. Balmain Central, Grayndler · 1.0 km · 1,738 formal votes · Labor TPP 72.50%
  3. Millers Point, Sydney · 1.1 km · 883 formal votes · Labor TPP 50.28%
  4. Birchgrove East, Grayndler · 1.3 km · 1,024 formal votes · Labor TPP 77.34%
  5. Pyrmont, Sydney · 1.3 km · 1,977 formal votes · Labor TPP 65.05%
  6. Birchgrove, Grayndler · 1.5 km · 1,099 formal votes · Labor TPP 69.88%
  7. Rozelle East, Grayndler · 1.6 km · 700 formal votes · Labor TPP 67.00%

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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