FIRST PREFERENCE COUNT FOR THE DIVISION OF BEROWRA (NSW) 66 OF 66 POLLING PLACES RETURNED.
This election delivered a big surprise nationally, but also in Berowra. Berowra has always been considered a safe liberal seat, but with the results of this election showing a swing of -6% against the Liberal party, the difference between Liberal and Labour in Berowra (after preference count) was only 3,634 votes.
This followed the 2022 election results which also showed a swing against the Liberal Party of -5.88%. But that result showed a difference between Liberal and Labour (after preferences) of 18,236 votes.
Whilst first preference votes clearly showed Julian Leeser (Liberal) received the highest percentage of votes, once preferences were counted, the end result was quite a close call. So it was a combination of votes for Ben Koshinski (Labour), Martin Cousins (the Greens) and Tina Brown (Independent) which delivered such a close result. It’s worth noting that the biggest swing towards any candidate was Tina Brown at 11.53%.
Here are the results from our local polling stations, they are quite a mixed bag with Wisemans Ferry recording a swing of 9% against the Liberal party and Glenorie Hillside showing a swing towards the Liberals party of 0.07%.
Overall a few areas in the Berowra electorate are worth mentioning. Rogans Hill recorded a swing of 11.84% towards the Liberals, Glenorie Hillside showed 0.07% towards the Liberals whereas Castle Hill North, Epping Area (several polling stations), Hornsby East, Hornsby West, Macquarie Park, Marsfield North, Mt Kuring-gai, Rogans Hill North and Waitara showed swings against the Liberals of over 10%. The Highest swing against the Liberals was Macquarie Park at 18.22%
If you want to look at more in depth results, the above information was taken from the AEC Tallyroom, https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/ then go to the Berowra page.
