All polling places in Cowper

2022 federal House election · Official AEC results

Thrumster

Cowper, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 97476

St Josephs Regional College, 1 College Dr, 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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Formal votes

269

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

17

5.94% of 286 total ballots.

First preferences

269 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Pat CONAGHAN
The Nationals		9836.43%
Caz HEISE
Independent		7929.37%
Keith McMULLEN
Labor		3312.27%
Faye ASPIOTIS
Pauline Hanson's One Nation		259.29%
Timothy NOTT
The Greens		165.95%
Simon CHASELING
Liberal Democrats		145.20%
Joshua Stephen FAIRHALL
United Australia Party		41.49%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

269 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Pat CONAGHAN
The Nationals		13851.30%
Caz HEISE
Independent		13148.70%

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 · 269 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party10338.29%
Liberal/National Coalition16661.71%

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

Thrumster 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.

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 detailsThrumster1Port Macquarie South2Port Macquarie Greenmeadows3Port Macquarie East4Settlement Shores5Port Macquarie West6Port Macquarie Town Beach7

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Nearby booths by distance

  1. Thrumster — selected polling place
  2. Port Macquarie South, Cowper · 0.9 km · 1,546 formal votes · Labor TPP 49.03%
  3. Port Macquarie Greenmeadows, Cowper · 1.3 km · 326 formal votes · Labor TPP 43.25%
  4. Port Macquarie East, Cowper · 2.0 km · 1,779 formal votes · Labor TPP 44.58%
  5. Settlement Shores, Cowper · 2.1 km · 1,114 formal votes · Labor TPP 41.74%
  6. Port Macquarie West, Cowper · 2.1 km · 1,207 formal votes · Labor TPP 41.51%
  7. Port Macquarie Town Beach, Cowper · 2.2 km · 937 formal votes · Labor TPP 47.28%

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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