Results of the 2023 New South Wales state election (Legislative Council)

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2023 New South Wales state election (Legislative Council)
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21 of the 42 seats on the Legislative Council
21 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
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L/NP
Leader Penny Sharpe Damien Tudehope None
Party Labor Coalition Greens
Seats before 14 17 3
Seats won 8 7 2
Seats after 15 15 4
Seat change Increase 1 Decrease 2 Increase 1
Popular vote 1,690,445 1,374,857 419,346
Percentage 36.61% 29.78% 9.08%
Swing Increase 6.93pp Decrease 5.04pp Decrease 0.64pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
SFF
LCP
Leader Mark Latham Robert Borsak None
Party One Nation SFF Legalise Cannabis
Seats before 2 2 0
Seats won 1 1 1
Seats after 3 2 1
Seat change Increase 1 Steady Increase 1
Popular vote 273,496 144,043 169,482
Percentage 5.92% 3.12% 3.67%
Swing Decrease 0.97pp Decrease 2.42pp Increase 3.67pp
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
AJP
RAP
Leader John Ruddick None Silvana Nile
Party Liberal Democrats Animal Justice Revive Australia
Seats before 0 2 1
Seats won 1 0 0
Seats after 1 1 0
Seat change Increase 1 Decrease 1 Decrease 0
Popular vote 162,755 101,183 2,507
Percentage 3.53% 2.19% 0.05%
Swing Increase 1.35pp Increase 0.24pp Increase 0.05pp

2023 New South Wales state election
Results
Leaders

The 2023 New South Wales Legislative Council election was held on 25 March 2023 to elect the 57th New South Wales Legislative Council.

The incumbent Liberal–National Coalition was seeking to retain its longstanding majority of seats, opposed by the Labor Party. The Greens, One Nation and several other minor parties also contested the election.[1]

Results

Legislative Council (STV) – Quota 209,858 – (CV)[2][3][4][5]
Party Votes % Swing 2023 seats 2019 seats Total seats Change
  Labor 1,690,445 36.61 +6.93 8 7 15 Increase 1
  Liberal/National joint ticket 1,374,857 29.78 –5.04 7 8 15 Decrease 2
  Greens 419,346 9.08 –0.64 2 2 4 Increase 1
  One Nation 273,496 5.92 –0.97 1 2 3 Increase 1
  Legalise Cannabis 169,482 3.67 +3.67 1 0 1 Increase 1
  Liberal Democrats 162,755 3.53 +1.35 1 0 1 Increase 1
  Shooters, Fishers, Farmers 144,043 3.12 –2.42 1 1 2 Steady
  Animal Justice 101,183 2.19 +0.24 0 1 1 Decrease 1
  Elizabeth Farrelly Independents 61,163 1.32 −0.51 0 0 0 Steady
  Family First 58,361 1.26 +1.26 0 0 0 Steady
  Sustainable Australia 42,902 0.93 –0.53 0 0 0 Steady
  Australia One 35,888 0.78 +0.78 0 0 0 Steady
  Public Education 34,523 0.75 +0.75 0 0 0 Steady
  Informed Medical Options 21,362 0.46 +0.46 0 0 0 Steady
  Socialist Alliance 17,056 0.37 +0.05 0 0 0 Steady
  United Australia 3,891 0.08 +0.08 0 0 0 Steady
  Revive Australia 2,507 0.05 +0.05 0 0 0 Decrease 1
  Independent 1,356 0.03 +0.03 0 0 0 Steady
  Ungrouped 965 0.02 +0.02 0 0 0 Decrease 1
  Call To Freedom 722 0.02 +0.02 0 0 0 Steady
  Christians For Community 306 0.01 +0.01 0 0 0 Steady
  Socialist Equality 249 0.01 +0.01 0 0 0 Steady
 Formal votes 4,616,858 94.31 +0.66 – – – –
 Informal votes 278,477 5.69 −0.66 – – – –
Total 4,895,335 100.00 – 21 21 42 –
 Registered voters / turnout 5,521,688 88.66 −0.78 – – – –

Full results

2023 New South Wales state election: Legislative Council
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Quota 209,858
Labor 1. Courtney Houssos (elected 1)
2. Rose Jackson (elected 5)
3. Cameron Murphy (elected 8)
4. Emily Suvaal (elected 10)
5. John Graham (elected 12)
6. Bob Nanva (elected 14)
7. Stephen Lawrence (elected 16)
8. Sarah Kaine (elected 17)
9. Mick Veitch
10. Stewart Prins
11. Michelle Miran
12. Marion Browne
13. Rizwan Chowdhury
14. Shoaib Shams
15. Paul Sekfy
16. Pamela Ward
17. Stef Chalmers
18. Greg Davis
19. Tori McGregor
20. Lynne Fairey
21. Lorraine Fordham 		1,690,445 36.61 +6.93
Liberal/National Coalition 1. Natasha Maclaren-Jones (Lib) (elected 2)
2. Bronnie Taylor (Nat) (elected 6)
3. Chris Rath (Lib) (elected 9)
4. Susan Carter (Lib) (elected 11)
5. Ben Franklin (Nat) (elected 13)
6. Jacqui Munro (Lib) (elected 15)
7. Rachel Merton (Lib) (elected 21)
8. Scott Barrett (Nat)
9. Jag Dhaliwal (Lib)
10. Sophie White (Lib)
11. Ben Niland (Nat)
12. Ying Li-Cantwell (Lib)
13. Vicky McGahey (Lib)
14. Mirjana Cestar (Lib)
15. Steve Coxhead (Nat) 		1,374,857 29.78 −5.04
Greens 1. Cate Faehrmann (elected 3)
2. Amanda Cohn (elected 7)
3. Lynda-June Coe
4. Jim Casey
5. Trish Frail
6. Elizabeth Thompson
7. Jane Scott
8. Kashmir Miller
9. Eddie Lloyd
10. Lizz Atkins
11. Mithra Cox
12. Jan Davis
13. Astrid O'Neill
14. Vida Shahamat
15. Tony Hickey
16. Ismet Tastan
17. Russell Weston
18. Sylvie Ellsmore 		419,346 9.08 −0.64
One Nation 1. Mark Latham (elected 4)
2. Tania Mihailuk
3. Amit Batish
4. Colin Grigg
5. Roger Smith
6. Steven Tripp
7. Charlie Fenton
8. Richard Orchard
9. Adrian Saker
10. Vicki Saker
11. Alan Lanyon
12. Quenten Roberts
13. Nicholas Turner
14. Samuel Donovan
15. Anastasia Whittaker
16. Kellie Rugless 		273,496 5.92 −0.97
Legalise Cannabis 1. Jeremy Buckingham (elected 18)
2. James Mathison
3. Gail Hester
4. Michael Balderstone
5. Karen Bruge
6. Frances Hood
7. Ross Smith
8. Lincoln Ellis
9. Nicole Lindner
10. Elyas Dakhill
11. Kathleen Williamson
12. Ian Eden
13. Louise Graves
14. Donald Fuggle
15. Max Green
16. Michael Harper
17. Crystal Best
18. Reece Reynolds 		169,482 3.67 +3.67
Liberal Democrats 1. John Ruddick (elected 19)
2. Millie Fontana
3. Natalie Dumer
4. Clinton Mead
5. Elvis Sinosic
6. John Larter
7. Michael Wheeler
8. Peter Whelan
9. Phillip Beazley
10. Michael Graham
11. Robert Cribb
12. Cameron Shamsabad
13. Peter Runge
14. Charles Rios
15. Samuel Gunning
16. Joaquim De Lima
17. Matthew Manning 		162,755 3.53 +1.35
Shooters, Fishers, Farmers 1. Robert Borsak (elected 20)
2. Shane Djuric
3. Alain Noujaim
4. Kyle Boddan
5. Steven Richards
6. William Thompson
7. Alexander Powell
8. Therese Noujaim
9. Brian Boyle
10. John Howden
11. Kelly Lessage
12. Raffaele Grasso
13. Angelique Noujaim
14. Moses El Salim
15. Mark Van Bysterveld
16. Grant Cappetta
17. Joe Rossi 		144,043 3.12 −2.42
Animal Justice 1. Alison Waters
2. Louise Ward
3. Matt Stellino
4. Catherine Blasonato
5. Petra Jones
6. Patrick Murphy
7. Naomi Woodgate
8. Ann Janaway
9. Catherine Ward
10. Sussannah Waters
11. Teresa Tomanovsky
12. Jordy Bertram
13. Kramer Thompson
14. Ellie Robertson
15. Christine Hahn
16. Kate Paterson
17. Lana Mueller 		101,183 1.95 +0.24
  Elizabeth Farrelly Independents 1. Elizabeth Farrelly
2. Teresa Russell
3. Sunil Badami
4. Philippa Murray
5. Hugo Chan
6. Jennifer Crawford
7. Anne Crawford
8. Caroline Pidcock
9. Julie Walton
10. Jane Stanham
11. Rose Ricketson
12. Andrew Potts
13. Deni McKenzie
14. Marie Sheehan
15. Freddy Sharpe
16. Edilla Ford 		61,163 1.32 +1.32
  Family First 1. Lyle Shelton
2. Barbara Helvadjian
3. Don Modarelli
4. Richard Stretton
5. Jamie Green
6. Robyn Butt
7. Graham McLennan
8. Craig Dengate
9. Nathaniel Marsh
10. Tracey Bradbury
11. Penelope Windeyer
12. Benjamin Irawan
13. Prue Duignan
14. Glen Ryan
15. Michael Chaplin 		58,361 1.26 +1.26
Sustainable Australia 1. William Bourke
2. Hana Oh
3. Bradd Morelli
4. Deborah Smythe
5. Herman Kuipers
6. Xiaowei Yue
7. Torsten Landwehr
8. John Alden
9. Lisa Hilleard
10. Peter Reid
11. Jill Green
12. Ann Burke
13. Mike Cottee
14. David Taylor
15. Susan Kitchener
16. Michael Wilder
17. Alison Noonan
18. Robert Eggleton
19. Cheryl Blacker
20. Alan Magnusson
21. Dean Winter 		42,902 0.93 −0.53
  Australia One 1. Riccardo Bosi
2. David Graham
3. Jackie George
4. Franco Todisco
5. David Heath
6. Garry Mckinlay
7. Frank Kloepfer
8. Reagan Kloepfer
9. Robyn George
10. Logan George
11. Scott Bowden
12. Kevin Walker
13. Luke George
14. Brad Kirkels
15. Barbara Kafer
16. Noel Anderson
17. Matt Polin
18. Josephine Fsadni 		35,888 0.78 +0.78
Public Education 1. Khalil Khay
2. Cheryl McBride
3. Anne Flint
4. Peter Furness
5. Edith McNally
6. Barbara Reynolds
7. Penelope Hackett
8. Warren Poole
9. Neil Robertson
10. Sue Robertson
11. Gemma Ackroyd
12. Hugh Ackroyd
13. Sandi Steep
14. Harry Fox
15. Lynne Fox
16. Kerryanne Knox
17. Vicki Walsh 		34,523 0.75 +0.75
Informed Medical Options 1. Michael O'Neill
2. Marelle Burnum
3. Lesley Kinney
4. Kevin Mund
5. Alison Davies
6. Robyn Curnow
7. Megan Bennetts
8. Christeena Middleton
9. Karen Burke
10. Gerard O'Neill
11. Wan Otto
12. Benjamin Fox
13. Craig Grech
14. Monica Shepherd
15. Graham Taylor
16. Karen Tittelbach
17. Ian Davies
18. John Fenwick 		21,362 0.46 +0.46
Socialist Alliance 1. Steve O'Brien
2. Paula Sanchez
3. Andrew Chuter
4. Samantha Ashby
5. Joel McAlear
6. Steffi Leedham
7. Jim McIlroy
8. Coral Wynter
9. Isaac Nellist
10. Pip Hinman
11. Peter Boyle
12. Federico Fuentes
13. Ben Radford
14. Duncan Roden
15. James Wyner 		17,056 0.37 +0.05
  United Australia 1. Craig Kelly
2. Andrew Robertson
3. Rosemary Saad
4. Anne Khoury
5. Dean Mackin
6. Robert Nalbandian
7. Amber Robertson
8. M. Wrightson
9. Philip Kelly 		3,891 0.08 +0.08
  Revive Australia 1. Silvana Nile
2. Fred Nile 		2,507 0.05 +0.05
Group P 1. Danny Lim
2. Lee Lim 		1,356 0.03 +0.03
  Call To Freedom 1. Milan Maksimovic
2. Deborah Lions
3. Mianda Villatora 		722 0.02 +0.02
  Christians For Community 1. Milton Caine
2. Robert Skillin 		306 0.01 +0.01
  Socialist Equality 1. Oscar Grenfell
2. Mike Head 		249 0.01 +0.01
Independent Guitang Lu 158 0.00 +0.00
  Indigenous-Aboriginal Colleen Fuller 156 0.00 +0.00
Independent Stefan Prasad 153 0.00 +0.00
  Homes First Lee Howe 134 0.00 +0.00
Independent Michelle Martin 89 0.00 +0.00
Independent Van Huynh 83 0.00 +0.00
Independent George Potkonyak 74 0.00 +0.00
Independent Mick Allen 39 0.00 +0.00
Independent Archie Lea 35 0.00 +0.00
Independent Warren Grzic 33 0.00 +0.00
Independent Ruth Cheetham 11 0.00 +0.00
Total formal votes 4,616,858 94.31 +0.66
Informal votes 278,477 5.69 −0.66
Turnout 4,895,335 88.66 −0.78

Continuing members

The following members of the Legislative Council were not up for re-election this year.

Party Member
  Labor Mark Buttigieg
Anthony D'Adam
Greg Donnelly
Daniel Mookhey
Tara Moriarty
Peter Primrose
Penny Sharpe
  Liberal Aileen MacDonald
Taylor Martin
Damien Tudehope
Natalie Ward
Casual vacancy
  National Wes Fang
Sam Farraway
Sarah Mitchell
  Greens Abigail Boyd
Sue Higginson
  One Nation Rod Roberts
Casual vacancy
  Shooters, Fishers, Farmers Mark Banasiak
  Animal Justice Emma Hurst

References

  1. ^ https://elections.nsw.gov.au/NSWEC/media/NSWEC/Registers/Register%20of%20candidates/20230116-2023-State-Election-Register-of-Candidates.pdf
  2. ^ "Legislative Council Check Count Statewide Summary". NSW State Election Results 2023. New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  3. ^ NSW STATE ELECTION RESULTS 2023
  4. ^ Detailed results
  5. ^ Turnout