All polling places in Gippsland

2025 federal House election · Official AEC results

Bairnsdale

Gippsland, VIC · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 3718

89 Nicholson St, BAIRNSDALE, VIC, 3875

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

958

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

47

4.68% of 1,005 total ballots.

First preferences

958 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Darren CHESTER
The Nationals		49551.67%
Sonny STEPHENS
Australian Labor Party		16717.43%
Gregory HANSFORD
Pauline Hanson's One Nation		14815.45%
Rochelle HINE
The Greens		10711.17%
Simon WILSON
Libertarian		414.28%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

958 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Darren CHESTER
The Nationals		69372.34%
Sonny STEPHENS
Australian Labor Party		26527.66%

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 · 958 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party26527.66%
Liberal/National Coalition69372.34%

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

Bairnsdale 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: 30.53% in 2022 and 27.66% in 2025; -2.87 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 detailsBairnsdale1Eastwood2Bairnsdale West3Lucknow4Ellaswood5Eagle Point6Newlands Arm7

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. Bairnsdale — selected polling place
  2. Eastwood, Gippsland · 1.3 km · 766 formal votes · Labor TPP 28.59%
  3. Bairnsdale West, Gippsland · 1.9 km · 974 formal votes · Labor TPP 34.70%
  4. Lucknow, Gippsland · 2.3 km · 229 formal votes · Labor TPP 22.27%
  5. Ellaswood, Gippsland · 5.2 km · 339 formal votes · Labor TPP 22.12%
  6. Eagle Point, Gippsland · 8.7 km · 380 formal votes · Labor TPP 31.84%
  7. Newlands Arm, Gippsland · 12.7 km · 275 formal votes · Labor TPP 32.73%

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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