Federal electorate · New South Wales
Bennelong
Bennelong is a federal electorate in New South Wales, held by Jerome Laxale of the Australian Labor Party since the 2025 election, by a margin of 9.26 points — a fairly safe seat.
Member for Bennelong
Jerome Laxale
Australian Labor Party
The 2025 result
Final two candidates after preferences were distributed, from the election held 3 May 2025.
- Jerome LAXALELabor59.26%65,076 votes
- Scott YUNGLiberal40.74%44,736 votes
First preferences in 2025
How the seat voted before preferences were distributed. The Coalition is counted as one figure across its four registrations, and the Greens across both of theirs — in Victoria they contest as GVIC and elsewhere as GRN, which read as two separate minor parties if left unmerged.
- Labor45.4%
- Coalition35.1%
- Greens11.8%
- Minor parties5.5%
- One Nation2.3%
Suburbs in Bennelong
31 suburbs and localities have residents in this electorate. 6of them also have residents in another one — the percentage is the share of that area’s Census population living here.
- Ryde
- Eastwood (NSW) 87%
- North Ryde
- West Ryde
- Gladesville
- Marsfield
- Lane Cove
- Lane Cove North
- Macquarie Park
- Hunters Hill
- Chatswood 22%
- Greenwich
- Meadowbank (NSW)
- Putney
- Denistone
- Riverview (NSW)
- Lane Cove West
- St Leonards (NSW) 37%
- East Ryde
- Denistone East
- Longueville
- Melrose Park (NSW) 76%
- Tennyson Point
- Chatswood West 74%
- Denistone West
- Northwood (NSW)
- Woolwich 99%
- Huntleys Cove
- Henley
- Linley Point
- Huntleys Point
Postcodes in Bennelong
9 postcodes have residents in this electorate. 5of them also have residents in another one — the percentage is the share of that area’s Census population living here.
- 2112
- 2066
- 2122 92%
- 2113
- 2114 98%
- 2111
- 2110 100%
- 2065 26%
- 2067 25%
Where this comes from
- Results, margins and turnout are the AEC’s published 2025figures. The margin is derived — the winner’s two-candidate-preferred share minus 50 — and the seat status is the AEC’s own classification.
- Suburbs and postcodes come from 2021 Census mesh blocks matched to CED_2025 boundaries, weighted by resident population rather than by area — otherwise a large, largely uninhabited postcode is assigned to whichever division holds the most empty land.
- These are an approximation of the AEC’s legal boundaries, so close to a boundary they can differ. To confirm where you are enrolled, check the AEC.
Australian Statistical Geography Standard Edition 3 allocation files and 2021 Census Mesh Block Counts, © Australian Bureau of Statistics.