2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Melrose Park

Bennelong, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 33928

Melrose Park Public School, 110 Wharf Rd, MELROSE PARK, NSW, 2114

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

1,774

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

126

6.63% of 1,900 total ballots.

First preferences

1,774 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / party	Votes	Share
Simon KENNEDY Liberal	744	41.94%
Jerome LAXALE Labor	633	35.68%
Tony ADAMS The Greens	194	10.94%
Rhys Ian COLLYER United Australia Party	64	3.61%
John AUGUST FUSION: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency	45	2.54%
Victor WATERSON Pauline Hanson's One Nation	41	2.31%
Dougal CAMERON Liberal Democrats	37	2.09%
Kyinzom DHONGDUE Democratic Alliance	16	0.90%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

1,774 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / party	Votes	Share
Simon KENNEDY Liberal	909	51.24%
Jerome LAXALE Labor	865	48.76%

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 · 1,774 formal votes
Side	Votes	Share
Australian Labor Party	865	48.76%
Liberal/National Coalition	909	51.24%

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

Melrose Park (Parramatta) in 2025 has the same AEC polling-place ID.

No continuous trend is shown because:

Polling-place name changed
Electorate changed
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Nearby election-day booths

Straight-line distance within 50 km, using AEC coordinates. Nearby booths may serve different electorates and voter groups.

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Geographic overview

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Nearby booths by distance

Melrose Park — selected polling place
Wentworth Point North, Reid · 1.3 km · 1,352 formal votes · Labor TPP 68.64%
Ermington Central, Bennelong · 1.4 km · 1,180 formal votes · Labor TPP 46.95%
West Ryde, Bennelong · 1.4 km · 2,062 formal votes · Labor TPP 53.10%
Denistone South, Bennelong · 1.5 km · 735 formal votes · Labor TPP 48.71%
Ermington West (Bennelong), Bennelong · 1.6 km · 1,540 formal votes · Labor TPP 52.08%
Ermington West (Parramatta), Parramatta · 1.6 km · 209 formal votes · Labor TPP 54.55%

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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