Formal votes
1,779Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.
2022 federal House election · Official AEC results
Port Macquarie East
Cowper, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 500
Hastings Secondary College (Port Macquarie Campus), 16 Owen St, PORT MACQUARIE, NSW, 2444
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
703.79% of 1,849 total ballots.
First preferences
| Candidate / party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pat CONAGHAN The Nationals | 649 | 36.48% |
| Caz HEISE Independent | 485 | 27.26% |
| Keith McMULLEN Labor | 301 | 16.92% |
| Timothy NOTT The Greens | 122 | 6.86% |
| Faye ASPIOTIS Pauline Hanson's One Nation | 112 | 6.30% |
| Simon CHASELING Liberal Democrats | 64 | 3.60% |
| Joshua Stephen FAIRHALL United Australia Party | 46 | 2.59% |
First preferences count the candidate marked first on each formal ballot.
Two-candidate preferred (TCP)
| Candidate / party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Caz HEISE Independent | 899 | 50.53% |
| Pat CONAGHAN The Nationals | 880 | 49.47% |
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 | 793 | 44.58% |
| Liberal/National Coalition | 986 | 55.42% |
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
Port Macquarie East in 2025 has the same AEC polling-place ID.
No continuous trend is shown because:
- Location changed or cannot be confirmed
Nearby election-day booths
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Geographic overview
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Nearby booths by distance
- Port Macquarie East — selected polling place
- Port Macquarie Town Beach, Cowper · 0.8 km · 937 formal votes · Labor TPP 47.28%
- Settlement Shores, Cowper · 1.6 km · 1,114 formal votes · Labor TPP 41.74%
- Thrumster, Cowper · 2.0 km · 269 formal votes · Labor TPP 38.29%
- Port Macquarie South, Cowper · 2.2 km · 1,546 formal votes · Labor TPP 49.03%
- Port Macquarie West, Cowper · 2.5 km · 1,207 formal votes · Labor TPP 41.51%
- Port Macquarie Greenmeadows, Cowper · 3.2 km · 326 formal votes · Labor TPP 43.25%
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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