Formal votes
1,125Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.
All polling places in Nicholls
2022 federal House election · Official AEC results
Rochester
Nicholls, VIC · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 4800
Rochester Secondary College, Edward St, ROCHESTER, VIC, 3561
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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Informal votes
13110.43% of 1,256 total ballots.
First preferences
| Candidate / party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sam BIRRELL The Nationals | 446 | 39.64% |
| Rob PRIESTLY Independent | 183 | 16.27% |
| Bill LODWICK Australian Labor Party | 156 | 13.87% |
| Steve BROOKS Liberal | 148 | 13.16% |
| Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL Pauline Hanson's One Nation | 56 | 4.98% |
| Robert PETERSON United Australia Party | 52 | 4.62% |
| Tim LAIRD Liberal Democrats | 40 | 3.56% |
| Ian CHRISTOE The Greens | 32 | 2.84% |
| Andrea OTTO FUSION: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency | 8 | 0.71% |
| Eleonor TABONE Australian Federation Party | 3 | 0.27% |
| Jeff DAVY Citizens Party | 1 | 0.09% |
First preferences count the candidate marked first on each formal ballot.
Two-candidate preferred (TCP)
| Candidate / party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sam BIRRELL The Nationals | 717 | 63.73% |
| Rob PRIESTLY Independent | 408 | 36.27% |
TCP distributes preferences to the final two candidates in this electorate. The pair can include independents or minor parties.
Two-party preferred (TPP)
| Side | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 345 | 30.67% |
| Liberal/National Coalition | 780 | 69.33% |
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
Rochester in 2025 has the same AEC polling-place ID.
No continuous trend is shown because:
- Electorate changed
Nearby election-day booths
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Geographic overview
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Nearby booths by distance
- Rochester — selected polling place
- Nanneella, Nicholls · 8.4 km · 270 formal votes · Labor TPP 14.44%
- Bamawm, Nicholls · 14.1 km · 234 formal votes · Labor TPP 17.95%
- Lockington, Nicholls · 17.3 km · 520 formal votes · Labor TPP 20.58%
- Elmore, Bendigo · 17.5 km · 440 formal votes · Labor TPP 43.64%
- Echuca West, Nicholls · 25.0 km · 460 formal votes · Labor TPP 36.52%
- Girgarre, Nicholls · 25.1 km · 307 formal votes · Labor TPP 21.50%
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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