By Violet Li
Labor has recorded a stronger result across nearly every polling place in Holt in the 2025 Federal Election.
According to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), Labor’s Cassandra Fernando gained a swing in almost all polling places under the two-candidate-preferred (TCP) model except the Hastings pre-poll centre. She won most polling places except ones in Deavon Meadows, Hastings, Pearcedale, Tooradin, and Warneet.
In the previous 2022 Federal Election, Labor’s performance varied across polling places. Fernando only gained a swing across 13 polling places out of 37 in 2022.
While Labor maintained leads in most polling places, the margins were narrower, and some polling places exhibited stronger support for the Liberal.
This year, Fernando had improved performance in some of the bluest booths across Holt, particularly in the rural and coastal areas.
Down in Pearcedale, Liberal has suffered a 5.6 per cent swing. Among the 1517 formal votes, Samuel secured 50.2 per cent of them after preferences, against Fernando’s 49.8 per cent. In the 2022 Election, the then-Liberal candidate gained 56 per cent of the TCP votes.
In the middle ground of Botanic Ridge, Fernando won the spot with 56.6 per cent of the TCP votes, securing an impressive swing of 8.7 per cent. In 2022, she lost the place with about 47.8 per cent of the TCP votes.
Fernando has won her second term as the Minister for Holt.
At the time of writing, Fernando is projected to win about 64.3 per cent of the votes under the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)’s two-candidate-preferred model, against Samuel’s 35.7 per cent.
