2025 federal House election · Official AEC results

Sale East

Gippsland, VIC · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 3818

Araluen Primary School, 81-99 Patten St, SALE, VIC, 3850

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

883

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

24

2.65% of 907 total ballots.

First preferences

883 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Darren CHESTER
The Nationals
48254.59%
Sonny STEPHENS
Australian Labor Party
15317.33%
Rochelle HINE
The Greens
12414.04%
Gregory HANSFORD
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
10111.44%
Simon WILSON
Libertarian
232.60%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

883 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Darren CHESTER
The Nationals
57965.57%
Sonny STEPHENS
Australian Labor Party
30434.43%

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 · 883 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party30434.43%
Liberal/National Coalition57965.57%

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

Sale 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 detailsSale East1Sale2Sale North3Cobains4Longford5Bundalaguah6Stratford7

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. Sale East — selected polling place
  2. Sale, Gippsland · 1.9 km · 1,506 formal votes · Labor TPP 30.68%
  3. Sale North, Gippsland · 3.3 km · 295 formal votes · Labor TPP 25.08%
  4. Cobains, Gippsland · 5.3 km · 168 formal votes · Labor TPP 17.26%
  5. Longford, Gippsland · 6.0 km · 402 formal votes · Labor TPP 19.15%
  6. Bundalaguah, Gippsland · 11.5 km · 269 formal votes · Labor TPP 15.24%
  7. Stratford, Gippsland · 15.6 km · 956 formal votes · Labor TPP 26.67%

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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