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2025 federal House election · Official AEC results

Shoal Bay

Paterson, NSW · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 1636

Shoal Bay Public School, 61 Rigney St, SHOAL BAY, NSW, 2315

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

517

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

63

10.86% of 580 total ballots.

First preferences

517 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Meryl SWANSON
Labor		20539.65%
Laurence ANTCLIFF
Liberal		15930.75%
Paul JOHNS
The Greens		5210.06%
Daniel DRYDEN
Legalise Cannabis Party		346.58%
Arnon WITHER
Pauline Hanson's One Nation		305.80%
Sandra Lyn BRIGGS
Family First		101.93%
Peter N ARENA
Trumpet of Patriots		91.74%
Philip PENFOLD
Independent		81.55%
Rod HOLDING
Independent		71.35%
April Maree SCOTT
Independent		30.58%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

517 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Meryl SWANSON
Labor		29156.29%
Laurence ANTCLIFF
Liberal		22643.71%

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 · 517 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party29156.29%
Liberal/National Coalition22643.71%

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 2022

Shoal Bay in 2022 has the same AEC polling-place ID.

The ID, name, electorate and address match, and coordinates are within 100 metres. This supports a location comparison, not a claim that the same people voted. Redistribution can still alter the surrounding electorate; candidates and parties can change.

Labor TPP: 49.73% in 2022 and 56.29% in 2025; 6.55 percentage points (2025 minus 2022). Each uses that election’s formal-vote denominator.

Use each election’s candidate tables for first preferences and TCP; differing candidate pairs are not a continuous candidate series.

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 detailsShoal Bay1Nelson Bay Central2Nelson Bay3Salamander4Corlette5Hawks Nest6Tea Gardens7

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. Shoal Bay — selected polling place
  2. Nelson Bay Central, Paterson · 2.1 km · 407 formal votes · Labor TPP 53.32%
  3. Nelson Bay, Paterson · 3.3 km · 695 formal votes · Labor TPP 46.33%
  4. Salamander, Paterson · 5.8 km · 589 formal votes · Labor TPP 54.33%
  5. Corlette, Paterson · 5.9 km · 727 formal votes · Labor TPP 45.94%
  6. Hawks Nest, Lyne · 6.3 km · 702 formal votes · Labor TPP 40.17%
  7. Tea Gardens, Lyne · 7.0 km · 1,411 formal votes · Labor TPP 40.04%

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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