Where to vote in Wide Bay: Full list of Gympie, Maryborough, Noosa booths

Gympie, Maryborough and Noosa voters will have no shortage of polling booths to choose from on election day, with more than 50 booths across the electorate. Find out where and when you can vote, what your options are, who looks likely to win, and the accessibility and assistance at each booth.

Wide Bay voters casting their ballot at Saturday’s federal election will not be starved for choice with 54 booths running across the electorate.

Almost three quarters of the Wide Bay’s registered voters have yet to have their say with only one day of pre-polling left, but the numbers were still high.

The latest Australian electoral Commission figures show that as of Wednesday May 17, 30,784 people had turned out at one of the Wide Bay’s four pre-polling booths.

This was about 1900 shy of the total number of pre-polling voters in 2019.

Pre-polling itself has not gone off without a hitch, however.

Gympie shop owners near the Tozer St pre-poll booth were left frustrated early on day one as members of each party’s “election gauntlet” were forced to stand 6m from the booth’s entrance.

This left them little choice but to stand outside the front of the neighbouring shops.

Police were called, speaking with business owners and election volunteers in an effort to keep the peace.

The opening day of pre-polling at Tewantin and Noosa was effectively washed out by torrential rain which arrived as the precursor to flooding across Gympie and the state’s South East corner.

The floodwaters and severe weather cut pre-polling numbers in the Wide Bay to a trickle, but did not turn off the tap completely.

LNP candidate Llew O'Brien and Labor's Geoff Williams: Wide Bay federal election 2022.

Incumbent Wide Bay LNP candidate Llew O’Brien is the favourite to retain the seat over Labor’s Geoff Williams, with gambling houses and an exit poll on day one pointing towards Mr O’Brien’s re-election.

The pair are the anticipated main contenders among a field of 10.

Other candidates vying for the seat include Independents Tim Jerome and Kelli Jacob, One Nation’s Nathan Buckley, United Australia Party’s Tracy Bennett, the Greens’ Craig Armstrong, Informed Medical Options Party’s Andrea Newland, Australian Values Party’s Daniel Williams, and Australian Federation Party’s John Woodward.

Mr Buckley came under fire from Geoff Williams and Mr O’Brien over a controversial Facebook post the night before pre-polling began.

Originally published as Where to vote in Wide Bay: Full list of Gympie, Maryborough, Noosa booths