2025 federal House election · Official AEC results

Rutherford North

Paterson, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 1413

Rutherford Public School, Weblands St, RUTHERFORD, NSW, 2320

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

1,692

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

186

9.90% of 1,878 total ballots.

First preferences

1,692 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Meryl SWANSON
Labor
63537.53%
Laurence ANTCLIFF
Liberal
28817.02%
Philip PENFOLD
Independent
26615.72%
Paul JOHNS
The Greens
18110.70%
Arnon WITHER
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
1428.39%
Daniel DRYDEN
Legalise Cannabis Party
714.20%
Peter N ARENA
Trumpet of Patriots
432.54%
April Maree SCOTT
Independent
271.60%
Sandra Lyn BRIGGS
Family First
231.36%
Rod HOLDING
Independent
160.95%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

1,692 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Meryl SWANSON
Labor
1,13567.08%
Laurence ANTCLIFF
Liberal
55732.92%

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 · 1,692 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party1,13567.08%
Liberal/National Coalition55732.92%

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 2022

Rutherford North in 2022 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 detailsRutherford North1Rutherford2Aberglasslyn3Rutherford West4Telarah5Lorn6Bolwarra7

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Nearby booths by distance

  1. Rutherford North — selected polling place
  2. Rutherford, Paterson · 1.2 km · 614 formal votes · Labor TPP 61.40%
  3. Aberglasslyn, Paterson · 1.6 km · 885 formal votes · Labor TPP 60.56%
  4. Rutherford West, Paterson · 1.6 km · 815 formal votes · Labor TPP 62.70%
  5. Telarah, Paterson · 1.7 km · 777 formal votes · Labor TPP 65.12%
  6. Lorn, Lyne · 3.5 km · 850 formal votes · Labor TPP 61.53%
  7. Bolwarra, Lyne · 4.2 km · 998 formal votes · Labor TPP 52.40%

AEC 2025 final-results CSV downloads · generated 2025-06-16T10:39:14 (source timestamp) · retrieved 7 September 2026. © Commonwealth of Australia 2025, CC BY 4.0. Percentages calculated from AEC counts; no endorsement by AEC.

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