2025 federal House election · Official AEC results

Elphinstone

Bendigo, VIC · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 3281

Elphinstone Primary School, 26 Wright St, ELPHINSTONE, VIC, 3448

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

248

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

10

3.88% of 258 total ballots.

First preferences

248 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Lisa CHESTERS
Australian Labor Party
8333.47%
Andrew LETHLEAN
The Nationals
4417.74%
Avery BARNETT-DACEY
The Greens
3413.71%
Matt EVANS
Liberal
3413.71%
Heather FREEMAN
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
218.47%
Evelyn KEETELAAR
Family First
93.63%
Rohan TYLER
Victorian Socialists
83.23%
Wayne TAYLOR
Legalise Cannabis Party
83.23%
Matt BANSEMER
Libertarian
52.02%
David VINCENT
Independent
20.81%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

248 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Lisa CHESTERS
Australian Labor Party
13253.23%
Andrew LETHLEAN
The Nationals
11646.77%

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 · 248 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party13253.23%
Liberal/National Coalition11646.77%

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

Elphinstone 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 detailsElphinstone1Taradale2Chewton3Malmsbury4Castlemaine North5Castlemaine6Campbells Creek7

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Nearby booths by distance

  1. Elphinstone — selected polling place
  2. Taradale, Bendigo · 4.3 km · 349 formal votes · Labor TPP 73.07%
  3. Chewton, Bendigo · 6.8 km · 339 formal votes · Labor TPP 80.83%
  4. Malmsbury, Bendigo · 10.3 km · 613 formal votes · Labor TPP 64.27%
  5. Castlemaine North, Bendigo · 11.1 km · 198 formal votes · Labor TPP 84.85%
  6. Castlemaine, Bendigo · 11.1 km · 905 formal votes · Labor TPP 78.01%
  7. Campbells Creek, Bendigo · 11.5 km · 732 formal votes · Labor TPP 66.39%

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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