Federal electorate · New South Wales
Newcastle
Newcastle is a federal electorate in New South Wales, held by Sharon Claydon of the Australian Labor Party since the 2025 election, by a margin of 15.80 points — a safe seat.
Member for Newcastle
Sharon Claydon
Australian Labor Party
The 2025 result
Final two candidates after preferences were distributed, from the election held 3 May 2025.
- Sharon CLAYDONLabor65.80%71,244 votes
- Charlotte McCABEThe Greens34.20%37,022 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.
- Labor45.3%
- Greens22.2%
- Coalition19.1%
- Minor parties7.2%
- One Nation5.3%
- Independents0.8%
Suburbs in Newcastle
49 suburbs and localities 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.
- Wallsend
- Merewether
- New Lambton
- Mayfield (Newcastle - NSW)
- Fletcher (NSW)
- Maryland (Newcastle - NSW)
- Adamstown
- Elermore Vale
- Lambton
- Waratah (NSW)
- Adamstown Heights 84%
- Hamilton (NSW)
- Shortland
- Hamilton South
- Stockton (NSW)
- Kotara 98%
- Newcastle
- Cooks Hill
- North Lambton
- Jesmond
- Waratah West
- New Lambton Heights
- Birmingham Gardens
- Rankin Park
- The Hill
- Georgetown (NSW)
- Carrington (Newcastle - NSW)
- Islington
- Mayfield West
- Warabrook
- Tighes Hill
- Mayfield East
- Broadmeadow
- Maryville
- Wickham (NSW)
- Merewether Heights
- Newcastle West
- Callaghan
- Bar Beach
- Newcastle East
- Hamilton East
- The Junction
- Hamilton North
- Cardiff Heights 52%
- Minmi
- Sandgate (NSW)
- Glendale (NSW) 7%
- Hexham (NSW) 91%
- Kooragang
Postcodes in Newcastle
20 postcodes have residents in this electorate. 4of them also have residents in another one — the percentage is the share of that area’s Census population living here.
- 2287
- 2304
- 2289 75%
- 2291
- 2305
- 2300
- 2299
- 2298
- 2303
- 2307
- 2295 50%
- 2293
- 2292
- 2294
- 2296
- 2297
- 2302
- 2308
- 2285 3%
- 2322 1%
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.