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2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Nambucca Heads

Cowper, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 493

Nambucca Heads Public School, cnr Ridge St & Lee St, NAMBUCCA HEADS, NSW, 2448

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

1,061

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

87

7.58% of 1,148 total ballots.

First preferences

1,061 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Pat CONAGHAN
The Nationals		31729.88%
Caz HEISE
Independent		25123.66%
Keith McMULLEN
Labor		21119.89%
Faye ASPIOTIS
Pauline Hanson's One Nation		948.86%
Timothy NOTT
The Greens		858.01%
Simon CHASELING
Liberal Democrats		545.09%
Joshua Stephen FAIRHALL
United Australia Party		494.62%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

1,061 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Caz HEISE
Independent		55652.40%
Pat CONAGHAN
The Nationals		50547.60%

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 · 1,061 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party51948.92%
Liberal/National Coalition54251.08%

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

Nambucca Heads in 2025 has the same AEC polling-place ID.

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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

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 detailsNambucca Heads1Newville2Valla Beach3Macksville4Scotts Head5Bowraville6Urunga7

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Nearby booths by distance

  1. Nambucca Heads — selected polling place
  2. Newville, Cowper · 1.9 km · 754 formal votes · Labor TPP 45.09%
  3. Valla Beach, Cowper · 5.6 km · 854 formal votes · Labor TPP 53.86%
  4. Macksville, Cowper · 11.2 km · 1,644 formal votes · Labor TPP 36.19%
  5. Scotts Head, Cowper · 12.0 km · 581 formal votes · Labor TPP 54.91%
  6. Bowraville, Cowper · 14.5 km · 987 formal votes · Labor TPP 45.19%
  7. Urunga, Cowper · 16.4 km · 1,419 formal votes · Labor TPP 44.96%

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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