2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Mernda South

McEwen, VIC · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 83324

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, 44 Mernda Village Dr, MERNDA, VIC, 3754

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

994

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

51

4.88% of 1,045 total ballots.

First preferences

994 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Rob MITCHELL
Australian Labor Party
42943.16%
Richard WELCH
Liberal
29729.88%
Neil BARKER
The Greens
12112.17%
Paul Joseph McRAE
United Australia Party
545.43%
Christopher NEIL
Australian Federation Party
434.33%
Chris BRADBURY
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
404.02%
John HERRON
Liberal Democrats
101.01%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

994 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Rob MITCHELL
Australian Labor Party
57057.34%
Richard WELCH
Liberal
42442.66%

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 · 994 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party57057.34%
Liberal/National Coalition42442.66%

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

Mernda South 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 detailsMernda South1Mernda2Mernda Central (Scullin)3Mernda Central (McEwen)4Mernda Park5Doreen Central6Laurimar7

Natural Earth public-domain outline, 1:110m. Geographic overview, not street navigation or electorate boundaries. Missing coordinates stay in the list.

Nearby booths by distance

  1. Mernda South — selected polling place
  2. Mernda, McEwen · 0.1 km · 1,796 formal votes · Labor TPP 57.96%
  3. Mernda Central (Scullin), Scullin · 1.1 km · 992 formal votes · Labor TPP 63.00%
  4. Mernda Central (McEwen), McEwen · 1.1 km · 938 formal votes · Labor TPP 60.34%
  5. Mernda Park, Scullin · 2.2 km · 756 formal votes · Labor TPP 66.40%
  6. Doreen Central, McEwen · 2.8 km · 1,482 formal votes · Labor TPP 56.75%
  7. Laurimar, McEwen · 3.3 km · 2,186 formal votes · Labor TPP 51.24%

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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