2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Somerset

Braddon, TAS · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 8415

Somerset Primary School, 30a Beaufort St, SOMERSET, TAS, 7322

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

1,388

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

152

9.87% of 1,540 total ballots.

First preferences

1,388 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Gavin PEARCE
Liberal
53338.40%
Chris LYNCH
Australian Labor Party
33824.35%
Craig Anthony GARLAND
Independent
20014.41%
Sophie LEHMANN
Jacqui Lambie Network
1329.51%
Darren BRIGGS
The Greens
705.04%
Ludo MINEUR
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
523.75%
Duncan WHITE
Liberal Democrats
261.87%
Darren Scott BOBBERMIEN
United Australia Party
171.22%
Scott RANKIN
The Local Party
130.94%
Keone Patrick MARTIN
Animal Justice Party
70.50%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

1,388 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Gavin PEARCE
Liberal
75054.03%
Chris LYNCH
Australian Labor Party
63845.97%

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 · 1,388 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party63845.97%
Liberal/National Coalition75054.03%

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

Somerset 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 detailsSomerset1Cooee2Shorewell Park3Elliott4Montello5Acton6Burnie7

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. Somerset — selected polling place
  2. Cooee, Braddon · 4.0 km · 710 formal votes · Labor TPP 45.49%
  3. Shorewell Park, Braddon · 6.0 km · 838 formal votes · Labor TPP 50.36%
  4. Elliott, Braddon · 6.8 km · 403 formal votes · Labor TPP 38.46%
  5. Montello, Braddon · 7.1 km · 835 formal votes · Labor TPP 53.05%
  6. Acton, Braddon · 7.2 km · 1,118 formal votes · Labor TPP 56.53%
  7. Burnie, Braddon · 7.5 km · 945 formal votes · Labor TPP 50.58%

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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