2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Pelaw Main

Paterson, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 364

Pelaw Main Public School, 6 Abermain St, PELAW MAIN, NSW, 2327

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

316

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

22

6.51% of 338 total ballots.

First preferences

316 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Meryl SWANSON
Labor
13342.09%
Brooke VITNELL
Liberal
8526.90%
Neil TURNER
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
4815.19%
Louise IHLEIN
The Greens
237.28%
Jason Mark OLBOURNE
United Australia Party
165.06%
Sonia BAILEY
Liberal Democrats
82.53%
Angela KETAS
Informed Medical Options Party
30.95%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

316 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Meryl SWANSON
Labor
18759.18%
Brooke VITNELL
Liberal
12940.82%

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 · 316 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party18759.18%
Liberal/National Coalition12940.82%

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

Pelaw Main 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 detailsPelaw Main1Kurri Kurri2Kurri Kurri North3Weston4Abermain5Mulbring6Gillieston Heights7

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Nearby booths by distance

  1. Pelaw Main — selected polling place
  2. Kurri Kurri, Paterson · 1.3 km · 1,964 formal votes · Labor TPP 60.95%
  3. Kurri Kurri North, Paterson · 2.4 km · 436 formal votes · Labor TPP 65.83%
  4. Weston, Paterson · 3.1 km · 874 formal votes · Labor TPP 63.84%
  5. Abermain, Paterson · 5.8 km · 878 formal votes · Labor TPP 59.68%
  6. Mulbring, Hunter · 7.7 km · 461 formal votes · Labor TPP 46.64%
  7. Gillieston Heights, Paterson · 8.6 km · 1,254 formal votes · Labor TPP 60.77%

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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