Gosford results

11pm. Numbers from Gosford above are final for tonight, with 12,558 pre-polls behaving exactly as the 28,819 polling booth votes, confirming that a fairly tight Primary Vote battle in 2015 has turned into a 50-30 blowout in favour of Labor. 7826 pre-polls and 2,456 have given struggling Liberal Felicity Wilson a fillip, from 40.3% to 41.9%, and Antony Green is “hearing reports of 40% Green and Mutton exhaustion rates which suggests Corrigan can’t close 41% to 26% Liberal lead”. Conversely, pre-polls and iVotes have made little difference in Manly, where the Liberal’s lead over the leading independent is that little bit greater (43.3% to 22.3%).

8.48pm. Still two booths outstanding on the Primary vote in Gosford, along with six on two-party preferred, and the projected Labor swing continues to nudge upwards. A few booths are outstanding in North Shore and Manly, but the picture there is clear enough – what remains to be established is whether the Liberals can nail down North Shore on pre-polls, although we won’t really be sure without a preference count. They are probably far enough ahead in Manly.

7.54pm. Three more primary vote results in Gosford, with little change to the projection.

7.51pm. New South Wales does a lot of non-booth counting on the night, so pre-polls in particular stand to add a bit of clarity in two hours or so.

7.48pm. The larger and more urban booths in Gosford have tended to improve Labor’s result — there are now 19 booths in on primary and 15 on two-party, and the swing is now well into double figures.

7.44pm. In Gosford, Booker Bay pre-school added on primary, and lots of new results in on two-party results bringing the total there up to 14 booths. The swing is now back to double figures.

7.41pm. In North Shore, Wilson (LIB) now down to 40.1%, Corrigan (IND) steady at 25.5%. That’s a shaky primary vote for the Liberals, but with postals likely to favour them, it should probably be enough.

7.39pm. Woy Woy South Public School primary vote added for Gosford.

7.38pm. And now the Glenvale School booth primary vote result brings it back to single figures.

7.37pm. Another primary vote result (Somersby) and one on two-party (Umina campus, where preferences flowed particularly strongly to Labor) pushes the projected swing in Gosford back into double figures.

7.33pm. Eleven booths in out of 19 in Manly, where Liberal candidate James Griffin is steady at 43.8%, and independent Kathryn Ridge is firming in second place with 23.4%. Presumably Griffin should be safe.

7.30pm. In North Shore, Felicity Wilson slips to 40.4% with 10 booths in on the primary vote, with independent Carolyn Corrigan up to 25.5%. A lot depends on how much of the 17.0% Greens vote is exhausting.

7.24pm. Liberal candidates are settling in at around 42% to 43% in Manly and North Shore, with the main challengers respectively at around 22% and 25%. Liberal-versus-Greens two-party counts are being conducted, which are unlikely to be much use, as they look to be coming in third.

7.23pm. Umina campus brings it to ten booths out of 26 in on the primary vote, with little change to the projection.

7.22pm. The large Peats Ridge booth in Gosford is a good one for Labor, pushing the swing back up towards the 10% mark. Peats Ridge now added on two-party.

7.20pm. A third booth in from Manly has Liberal candidate James Griffin up to 43.2%, with both Kathryn Ridge and the Greens a peek above 20%. Unless the trend changes, that should be enough for Griffin.

7.19pm. In Gosford, Mangrove Mountain Hall added on primary, Niagara Park Primary added on two-party, doing little to change the picture.

7.16pm. Five booths in now from North Shore: Felicity Wilson holding steady at 41.3%, Carolyn Corrigan dropping to 24.7%.

7.14pm. Some historical perspective: the Liberals got 41.0% of the primary vote and lost by 1.3% in 2003; then Mike Baird won by 3.4% with 45.1% in 2007. The independent incumbent, David Barr, got 33.4% and 31.2% respectively.

7.12pm. Four booths in now from North Shore, and Liberal candidate Felicity Wilson is back up 41.4%, with Carolyn Corrigan holding steady at 26.9%.

7.09pm. A second booth in North Shore, Forsyth Park, brings the Liberal candidate down to 38.8%, but Carolyn Corrigan is down too, to 26.0%. This was a better booth for independent Ian Mutton and the Greens, but it’s still clear that Corrigan is the main threat to Felicity Wilson.

7.07pm. A second booth in Manly brings the Liberal back to 42.4%, with independent Kathryn Ridge on 22.1% and the Greens on 19.9%. The Liberal primary vote might be low enough to be dangerous under compulsory preferential, but it’s probably enough under optional where there is such a big gap between the two front-runners.

7.05pm. The first booth in North Shore, Drill Hall, has Liberal candidate Felicity Wilson on 40.8%, potentially low enough to be dangerous. Far ahead of the independents is Carolyn Corrigan on 34.0%, who will be well in the game if this keeps up.

7.03pm. Four booths in on two-party in Gosford now, including the fast-working Point Clare booth. Preference flows to Labor seem to be a little bit weaker than in 2015, so now that I’m using the current results, the projected swing is now in single figures.

6.57pm. Seven booths now in on the primary vote, and little change on the projection.

6.53pm. We’ve not got two more central booths in Gosford on the primary vote, including the very large one at Point Clare Public, and it’s a pretty emphatic win there for Labor of 797-579 over the Liberals on the primary vote, compared with an 897-693 win to the Liberals at the election. So the projected swing to Labor is now into double digits.

6.49pm. The Kulnura Hall booth is in on 2PP, but it only tells us about the destination of 41 minor party votes in preferences. My projection above will continue to use the last election preferences until we’ve got more than 200 such votes to work with, and then it will switch to projecting from preference flows from the count thus far.

6.45pm. A fourth small booth in Gosford, Mooney Mooney Public, suggests Patonga is the outlier, and that Labor is picking up a solid but not overwhelming swing. But certainly they’re looking good to retain the seat.

6.44pm. The first result from Manly, Manly Hospital, has Liberal candidate James Griffin on 45.9%, which would likely be enough to see off any challengers, although the 34.8% vote for Kathryn Ridge would be a worry for him.

6.42pm. A third small booth from the Gosford hinterland, Mt White Rural Fire Service, is more like Kulnura than Patonga, with only a slight swing to Labor.

6.40pm. The second small booth from Gosford, Patonga Hall, is a much better result for Labor — they’ve beaten the Liberals 70-55 on the primary vote, having lost there 81-41 in 2015.

6.30pm. We’ve got Kulnura Hall in from Gosford — only 131 votes, but the result is little changed on 2015, suggesting another close result. The above table shows raw primary vote and percentage numbers, then swings and projections based on booth matching. At this stage, the 2PP assumes the same distribution as the 2015 election.

6pm. Polls have closed for today’s three New South Wales state by-elections in Gosford, Manly and North Shore, so now commences live commentary. We should get some very small booths in from Gosford first, followed by a lull, followed by large booths coming in from 7pm onwards.

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