2025 federal House election · Official AEC results

Paynesville

Gippsland, VIC · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 3810

Paynesville Neighbourhood Centre, 55 Esplanade, PAYNESVILLE, VIC, 3880

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

878

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

32

3.52% of 910 total ballots.

First preferences

878 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Darren CHESTER
The Nationals
41447.15%
Sonny STEPHENS
Australian Labor Party
24327.68%
Rochelle HINE
The Greens
9811.16%
Gregory HANSFORD
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
9210.48%
Simon WILSON
Libertarian
313.53%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

878 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Darren CHESTER
The Nationals
52960.25%
Sonny STEPHENS
Australian Labor Party
34939.75%

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 · 878 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party34939.75%
Liberal/National Coalition52960.25%

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

Paynesville 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: 30.33% in 2022 and 39.75% in 2025; 9.42 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

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 without street tiles

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 detailsPaynesville1Newlands Arm2Eagle Point3Metung4Lucknow5Bairnsdale6Eastwood7

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. Paynesville — selected polling place
  2. Newlands Arm, Gippsland · 2.8 km · 275 formal votes · Labor TPP 32.73%
  3. Eagle Point, Gippsland · 4.8 km · 380 formal votes · Labor TPP 31.84%
  4. Metung, Gippsland · 12.0 km · 501 formal votes · Labor TPP 38.52%
  5. Lucknow, Gippsland · 12.7 km · 229 formal votes · Labor TPP 22.27%
  6. Bairnsdale, Gippsland · 13.3 km · 958 formal votes · Labor TPP 27.66%
  7. Eastwood, Gippsland · 14.3 km · 766 formal votes · Labor TPP 28.59%

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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