2025 federal House election · Official AEC results

Forster East

Lyne, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 1587

Forster Public School, 102 Head St, FORSTER, NSW, 2428

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

948

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

110

10.40% of 1,058 total ballots.

First preferences

948 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Alison PENFOLD
The Nationals
29230.80%
Jeremy MILLER
Independent
20621.73%
Digby WILSON
Labor
19220.25%
Keys MANLEY
Legalise Cannabis Party
838.76%
Tom FERRIER
The Greens
808.44%
Colin HUGHES
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
353.69%
Cathy CHARSLEY
Trumpet of Patriots
232.43%
Mark Alexander HORNSHAW
Libertarian
212.22%
David MASTERS
Family First
131.37%
Stephen John BURKE
Citizens Party
30.32%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

948 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Alison PENFOLD
The Nationals
48050.63%
Digby WILSON
Labor
46849.37%

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 · 948 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party46849.37%
Liberal/National Coalition48050.63%

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

Forster East 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

Numbers match the list below. Select a marker for its results link. Circles: election day; squares: pre-poll; diamonds: mobile/hospital teams. Teams can cover many locations; markers do not show service areas.

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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 detailsForster East1Forster South2Tuncurry3Forster Keys4Coomba Park5Hallidays Point6Diamond Beach7

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. Forster East — selected polling place
  2. Forster South, Lyne · 2.1 km · 972 formal votes · Labor TPP 44.96%
  3. Tuncurry, Lyne · 2.9 km · 1,022 formal votes · Labor TPP 44.72%
  4. Forster Keys, Lyne · 3.8 km · 861 formal votes · Labor TPP 42.39%
  5. Coomba Park, Lyne · 8.3 km · 359 formal votes · Labor TPP 49.58%
  6. Hallidays Point, Lyne · 13.0 km · 872 formal votes · Labor TPP 41.63%
  7. Diamond Beach, Lyne · 15.6 km · 554 formal votes · Labor TPP 44.40%

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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