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Bennelong

Results and projection across recent federal elections.

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Seat-level trend · Inner-metropolitan seats

Projection for Bennelong

ALP
42.0%
LIB
33.5%
GRN
13.5%
ONP
7.4%

The line traces Bennelong's real 2025 primary vote forward using the polling trend for inner-metropolitan seats nationally — not a poll of this seat specifically, and that category has only around 28 polls tracked over 14 months across every seat of its kind in the country, so read the shape of the line as directional, not a precise forecast. The actual 2028 projection number (shown at the end of the line, in the table below, and everywhere else on the site) also blends in NSW's own state-level polling 50/50 with this classification trend — the chart just doesn't visualize that second component, so the end of the line glides onto the real, state-blended number over its final stretch rather than matching the classification-only shape exactly. There's only one projection number for Bennelong, this is just showing how the polling got there.

Labor wins in 66% of simulations
Labor 58.8%
Coalition (Liberal) 41.2%

Two-candidate-preferred, 2028 projection — the top two contenders are recalculated from the projected primary votes above (so a surging party can break into contention even if it wasn't one of the top two last election), and every other party's vote is distributed between them as preferences using standard flow assumptions, not seat-specific sourced preference data. The win-probability figure above comes from a separate 10,000-run Monte Carlo simulation (see the Election Map page for methodology) built on this same TCP margin — it's how often that margin survives national polling uncertainty plus seat-level noise, not a different projection.

Get to know the electorate

Bennelong

5.1%
Unemployment rate
Same as Australia's 5.1% average
Classification
Inner-metropolitan
Created
1949
Size
60 km²
Current member
Jerome Laxale (Labor)
Population
191,219
Median age
37
Median household income
$2,124/wk
Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander
0.5%

Ancestry

Asian
34.9%
European
21.8%
Australian
15.5%

People could report up to two ancestries. Grouped by region from the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller regions outside that list aren't counted.

Language spoken at home

English only
43.6%
Mandarin
15.3%
Cantonese
8.4%
Korean
5.7%
Hindi
1.9%

Language spoken most often at home.

Religious affiliation

No Religion
37.1%
Christian
27.6%
Hinduism
5.1%

All people. Christian combines denominations in the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller denominations outside that list aren't counted. Other faiths shown individually.

Education (highest level attained)

University Educated
46.9%
High School
26.5%
TAFE Educated
17.3%

People aged 15+. University Educated: Bachelor degree or higher. TAFE Educated: Certificate or Diploma. High School: no further qualification.

Housing

Renting
39%
Owned (Active Mortgage)
30%
Owned (No Mortgage)
28%

Households. Owned (No Mortgage) / Owned (Active Mortgage) / Renting.

Occupation

White collar
75%
Blue collar
24%

Employed people (15+). White collar: Managers, Professionals, Clerical & Administrative, Sales. Blue collar: Trades, Community & Personal Service, Machinery Operators, Labourers.

Past Results | Bennelong

20222025Projection
ALP37.7%45.4%42.0%
LIB41.4%35.1%33.5%
GRN11.4%11.8%13.5%
ONP1.7%2.3%7.4%
Other7.8%5.5%3.5%

Latest update: 2 October 2026