Wide Bay federal election 2025: live updates, results and latest news
Wide Bay voters will today decide who will represent them in the federal government for the next four years. Follow live results here.
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Follow live results as residents in the electorate of Wide Bay cast their votes in the 2025 federal election.
LNP’s Llew O’Brien has held the seat since 2016 and retained it at the 2022 election with an 11.3 per cent margin on a two-party-preferred basis.
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The Wide Bay takes in Gympie, Maryborough, and Noosa, as well as the parts of the South Burnett including Goomeri and Cherbourg along with Mary Valley towns Imbil and Kandanga.
There are seven candidates this election, including (in ballot paper order) Kirsti Kenningale (Family First), Elliott Chalmers (Labor), Chad Burgess (Pauline Hanson’s One Nation), Llew O’Brien (LNP), Casey Iddon (Independent), Emma Buhse (Greens), and Gabrial Pennicott (Trumpet of Patriots).
Wide Bay votes: O’Brien retains seat despite swing against LNP
Incumbent Llew O’Brien has been returned in Wide Bay, despite a swing of almost 5% against him and the LNP.
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Nuclear energy and a general malaise towards Australia’s major parties and the election in general dominated the vibe at Kingaroy on Saturday morning, where one voter said he had not voted for any of the candidates on offer but had instead given his vote to god.