2025 Federal Election

Declaration votes issued by state

Updated: Sun, 04 May 2025 6:48:18 PM AEST

This table provides the number of declaration votes issued by state and territory.

This table is sortable by selecting on column headers.

Notes:

  1. A declaration vote is when a voter cannot be marked off the electoral roll at the time of voting. This can include people voting outside of their division, via post or where the voter's name cannot be found on the certified list.
  2. These results are not final.

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Declaration votes issued by state
State Provisional Absent Declaration pre-poll Postal vote certificates
Total issued Own division Total issued Own division
New South Wales 7,710 72,953 41,909 2,811 614,888 612,738
Victoria 3,864 42,573 34,149 2,089 828,773 826,612
Queensland 9,018 46,976 22,687 1,067 620,419 619,082
Western Australia 648 7,664 9,035 420 226,570 225,896
South Australia 7,125 25,137 10,349 990 184,641 184,112
Tasmania 1,502 6,429 2,012 26 51,892 51,731
Australian Capital Territory 1,834 4,562 0 0 26,759 26,578
Northern Territory 0 0 0 0 7,533 7,527
Overseas 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 31,701 206,294 120,141 7,403 2,561,475 2,554,276