Polling Stations 1996 to 2016

The below interactive map looks at the Two Candidate Preferred results for polling locations in Australian Federal Elections. Each bar on the map represents a polling place.

The height of a bar indicates the margin of victory for a candidate at that polling place. The width of the bar corresponds to the number of votes cast at the polling place. The colour of the bar indicates the party of the winning candidate.

On desktop hold down the ‘control’ key and drag to change the map rotation and view. Roll over a bar to show the detailed result. Key and methodology information is displayed below.

Interactive key

Notes/Methodology

This interactive only displays polling places where on average the number of legal votes exceeded 100 between 1996 and 2016.
Only polling places that have a latitude/longitude as provided by the AEC are displayed.
This interactive only looks at Federal elections, it does not look at by-elections.
The data for years 1996 to 2004 was scraped from a CD ROM available from the AEC website. The data on this CD does not have a robust naming convention around polling station names and does not include modern polling station IDs. Every effort has been made to anticipate and correct any errors, but please keep in mind that small errors may have occurred during this process.
Where a polling place serviced more than one division in an election, the electorate with the highest number of votes cast at that polling place is displayed.
The interactive map's purpose is to show broad trends in voting patterns, not for individual polling place analysis.
'PPVC' stands for pre-polling voting centre.
Source: Australian Electoral Commission