NSW Legislative Assembly election 2011: two-party preferred results by polling place

Background paper no. 1/2012

• Antony Green
• NSW Parliamentary Library

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24 February 2012This publication provides detailed analysis of two-party and two-candidate preferred results by polling place for the 2011 New South Wales election. The publication is the latest in a series first published by the Parliamentary Library after the 1991 election, and is a companion to last year's publication "2011 New South Wales Election: Analysis of Results", (Background Paper No 3/2011).

As well as two-party and two-candidate preferred results, several tables of first preference results by polling place are provided on pages 1-10. These tables highlight polling places across the state where selected registered parties recorded their highest and lowest percentage first preference vote.

Two tables are provided on page 11 detailing the proportion of vote by vote type. The first table provides a detailed breakdown of the 2011 election, showing percentage first preference, informal and two-party preferred vote by party by vote type. The second table shows the changing proportion of vote by vote type at New South Wales elections since 1984. This table highlights the declining proportion of the vote taken on polling day as well as the rise in postal and pre-poll voting.