All polling places in Wide Bay

2025 federal House election · Official AEC results

Rainbow Beach

Wide Bay, QLD · Election-day booth · AEC polling-place ID 6618

Rainbow Beach State School, 1 Warooga St, RAINBOW BEACH, QLD, 4581

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

499

Denominator for candidate and preferred-vote shares.

Informal votes

36

6.73% of 535 total ballots.

First preferences

499 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Llew O'BRIEN
LNP		19038.08%
Elliott CHALMERS
Australian Labor Party		14328.66%
Chad BURGESS
Pauline Hanson's One Nation		428.42%
Emma BUHSE
The Greens		367.21%
Kirsti KENNINGALE
Family First		346.81%
Gabrial PENNICOTT
Trumpet of Patriots		316.21%
Casey IDDON
Independent		234.61%

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

Two-candidate preferred (TCP)

499 formal votes; informal votes excluded from candidate percentages
Candidate / partyVotesShare
Llew O'BRIEN
LNP		27655.31%
Elliott CHALMERS
Australian Labor Party		22344.69%

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 · 499 formal votes
SideVotesShare
Australian Labor Party22344.69%
Liberal/National Coalition27655.31%

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

Rainbow Beach 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 detailsRainbow Beach1Tin Can Bay2Cooloola Cove3Boonooroo4Goomboorian5Wolvi6Kin Kin7

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Nearby booths by distance

  1. Rainbow Beach — selected polling place
  2. Tin Can Bay, Wide Bay · 8.7 km · 921 formal votes · Labor TPP 38.98%
  3. Cooloola Cove, Wide Bay · 11.8 km · 1,042 formal votes · Labor TPP 42.99%
  4. Boonooroo, Wide Bay · 32.4 km · 329 formal votes · Labor TPP 44.07%
  5. Goomboorian, Wide Bay · 35.4 km · 473 formal votes · Labor TPP 31.50%
  6. Wolvi, Wide Bay · 35.6 km · 179 formal votes · Labor TPP 31.28%
  7. Kin Kin, Wide Bay · 44.6 km · 393 formal votes · Labor TPP 55.98%

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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