NSW STATE ELECTION RESULTS 2023
Saturday 25 March 2023
State Electoral District of Blue Mountains
Preference Data for each ballot paper scrutinised at the election including informal
papers.
Electors Enrolled as on Saturday, 25/03/2023: 59,088
The link below is a download link and contains a zip file with all Legislative Assembly
preference markings for the district of Blue Mountains.
Each record in the file represents a preference marking. The format has been determined
to allow the greatest flexibility for analysis using excel pivot tables. The file
has the following format and can be readily imported into an excel spreadsheet as
a tab delimited file.
| Field Name | Field Value | Data Type |
|---|---|---|
| District | Short District Name | Varchar, not null |
| PollingPlaceName | This field holds either the Venue name where vote is taken for a voting centre or early voting centre or is 'Declared Facility' which holds all the votes for all venues within each district or 'Absent', 'Postal', 'Entrolment/Provisional'. | Varchar, not null |
| BPNumber | Virtual ballot paper id, uniquely identify a ballot paper with in a contest. Not a unique record id. | Integer, not null |
| Formality | Identifies if ballot paper is Formal or Informal. | Varchar, not null |
| CandidateName | Candidate name as shown on the ballot. | Varchar, not null |
| PrefMarking | Preference marking as seen on ballot paper either a series of numbers comprising characters 0 to 9 or / or x | Varchar or null |
| PrefCounted | Preference number as interpreted from preference marking used in count. Must be an integer greater than Zero. Only shown where the formality of the ballot paper is Formal. | Integer, not null |
