The Peninsula votes Labor

The majority of Peninsula voters favoured the Labor Party on a two-party preferred basis, according to polling figures released by the Australian Electoral Commission.

The Labor Party gained a total of 10,957 first preference votes at the August 21 Federal election, while the Liberal Party achieved 9713 and the Greens 2149 on the Peninsula.

A total of 26,182 votes were cast at Peninsula polling places making up more than 33 per cent in the seat of Robertson, according to AEC figures.

With 96,593 registered voters in Robertson, 79,990 votes had been counted late on Friday, August 27, with 17.19 per cent of votes still to be counted.

Of the 16 polling places on the Peninsula, the most popular polling place on Election Day in terms of total number of votes cast was Ettalong Public School with 2932 formal and informal votes.

Empire Bay and Woy Woy South public schools were also popular recording 2805 and 2574 votes respectively.

The quietest polling place on the Peninsula was Patonga Progress Association with 204 formal and informal votes next to The Bays Community Hall with 313 votes.

The Woy Woy Pre Polling Office in Blackwall Rd recorded 3991 votes for this year's Federal election.

Of the 26,182 votes cast on the Peninsula, 1754 votes were recorded as informal making up 6.69 per cent of the total Peninsula voting count.

The number of informal votes cast on the Peninsula made up 35.9 per cent of the total number of informal votes cast within the Robertson electorate.

On a two-party preferred basis, the Labor Party holds 13,402 votes compared to the Liberal Party's 10,660 votes on the Peninsula, as at August 27.

Electorate-wide, the Labor Party holds 38,588 votes to the Coalition's 36,542, accounting for a 1.3 per cent swing to Labor.

The greatest number of votes supporting Liberal candidate Mr Darren Jameson on Election Day was cast at Empire Bay Public School with 1256 votes.

Meanwhile, Ettalong Public School recorded the greatest number of votes in support of the Labor Party candidate Ms Deborah O'Neill with 1242 votes.

The Woy Woy Pre Polling Vote Centre also recorded strong support for both major party candidates with Labor seeing 1687 votes and Liberal 1646 votes prior to Election Day.

Ettalong Public School recorded the most number of first preferential votes to The Greens with 222 votes counted.

The greatest swing against the Labor Party was seen at Pearl Beach with a 5.66 per cent swing, where The Greens maintained one of their best results with around 18 per cent of the vote.

The greatest swing against the Liberal Party on the Peninsula was recorded at Patonga with a 3.48 per cent margin.

Clare Graham, 27 Aug 2010 Website, 27 Aug 2010 Australian Electoral Commission