# Results of the 2023 New South Wales state election (Legislative Council)

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The 2023 New South Wales Legislative Council election was held on 25 March 2023 to elect the 57th New South Wales Legislative Council.
The incumbent Liberal–National Coalition was seeking to retain its longstanding majority of seats, opposed by the Labor Party. The Greens, One Nation and several other minor parties also contested the election.

## Results

Legislative Council (STV) – Quota 209,858 – (CV) :
| Party | Party | Votes | % | Swing | 2023 seats | 2019 seats | Total seats | Change |
| | Labor | 1,690,445 | 36.61 | +6.93 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 1 |
| | Liberal/National joint ticket | 1,374,857 | 29.78 | –5.04 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 2 |
| | Greens | 419,346 | 9.08 | –0.64 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| | One Nation | 273,496 | 5.92 | –0.97 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| | Legalise Cannabis | 169,482 | 3.67 | New | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | Liberal Democrats | 162,755 | 3.53 | +1.35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | 144,043 | 3.12 | –2.42 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| | Animal Justice | 101,183 | 2.19 | +0.24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| | Elizabeth Farrelly Independents | 61,163 | 1.32 | −0.51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| | Family First | 58,361 | 1.26 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| | Sustainable Australia | 42,902 | 0.93 | –0.53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| | Australia One | 35,888 | 0.78 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| | Public Education | 34,523 | 0.75 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| | Informed Medical Options | 21,362 | 0.46 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| | Socialist Alliance | 17,056 | 0.37 | +0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| | United Australia | 3,891 | 0.08 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| | Revive Australia | 2,507 | 0.05 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | Independent | 1,356 | 0.03 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| | Ungrouped | 965 | 0.02 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | Call To Freedom | 722 | 0.02 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| | Christians For Community | 306 | 0.01 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| | Socialist Equality | 249 | 0.01 | New | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Formal votes | Formal votes | 4,616,858 | 94.31 | +0.66 | – | – | – | – |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | 278,477 | 5.69 | −0.66 | – | – | – | – |
| Total | Total | 4,895,335 | 100.00 | – | 21 | 21 | 42 | – |
| Registered voters / turnout | Registered voters / turnout | 5,521,688 | 88.66 | −0.78 | – | – | – | – |

## Full results

2023 New South Wales state election: Legislative Council :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Quota | Quota | Quota | 209,858 | | |
| | Labor | 1. Courtney Houssos (elected 1) 2. Rose Jackson (elected 5) 3. Cameron Murphy (elected 8) 4. Emily Suvaal (elected 10) 5. John Graham (elected 12) 6. Bob Nanva (elected 14) 7. Stephen Lawrence (elected 16) 8. Sarah Kaine (elected 17) 9. Mick Veitch 10. Stewart Prins 11. Michelle Miran 12. Marion Browne 13. Rizwan Chowdhury 14. Shoaib Shams 15. Paul Sekfy 16. Pamela Ward 17. Stef Chalmers 18. Greg Davis 19. Tori McGregor 20. Lynne Fairey 21. Lorraine Fordham | 1,690,445 | 36.61 | +6.93 |
| | Liberal/National Coalition | 1. Natasha Maclaren-Jones (Lib) (elected 2) 2. Bronnie Taylor (Nat) (elected 6) 3. Chris Rath (Lib) (elected 9) 4. Susan Carter (Lib) (elected 11) 5. Ben Franklin (Nat) (elected 13) 6. Jacqui Munro (Lib) (elected 15) 7. Rachel Merton (Lib) (elected 21) 8. Scott Barrett (Nat) 9. Jag Dhaliwal (Lib) 10. Sophie White (Lib) 11. Ben Niland (Nat) 12. Ying Li-Cantwell (Lib) 13. Vicky McGahey (Lib) 14. Mirjana Cestar (Lib) 15. Steve Coxhead (Nat) | 1,374,857 | 29.78 | −5.04 |
| | Greens | 1. Cate Faehrmann (elected 3) 2. Amanda Cohn (elected 7) 3. Lynda-June Coe 4. Jim Casey 5. Trish Frail 6. Elizabeth Thompson 7. Jane Scott 8. Kashmir Miller 9. Eddie Lloyd 10. Lizz Atkins 11. Mithra Cox 12. Jan Davis 13. Astrid O'Neill 14. Vida Shahamat 15. Tony Hickey 16. Ismet Tastan 17. Russell Weston 18. Sylvie Ellsmore | 419,346 | 9.08 | −0.64 |
| | One Nation | 1. Mark Latham (elected 4) 2. Tania Mihailuk 3. Amit Batish 4. Colin Grigg 5. Roger Smith 6. Steven Tripp 7. Charlie Fenton 8. Richard Orchard 9. Adrian Saker 10. Vicki Saker 11. Alan Lanyon 12. Quenten Roberts 13. Nicholas Turner 14. Samuel Donovan 15. Anastasia Whittaker 16. Kellie Rugless | 273,496 | 5.92 | −0.97 |
| | Legalise Cannabis | 1. Jeremy Buckingham (elected 18) 2. James Mathison 3. Gail Hester 4. Michael Balderstone 5. Karen Bruge 6. Frances Hood 7. Ross Smith 8. Lincoln Ellis 9. Nicole Lindner 10. Elyas Dakhill 11. Kathleen Williamson 12. Ian Eden 13. Louise Graves 14. Donald Fuggle 15. Max Green 16. Michael Harper 17. Crystal Best 18. Reece Reynolds | 169,482 | 3.67 | +3.67 |
| | Liberal Democrats | 1. John Ruddick (elected 19) 2. Millie Fontana 3. Natalie Dumer 4. Clinton Mead 5. Elvis Sinosic 6. John Larter 7. Michael Wheeler 8. Peter Whelan 9. Phillip Beazley 10. Michael Graham 11. Robert Cribb 12. Cameron Shamsabad 13. Peter Runge 14. Charles Rios 15. Samuel Gunning 16. Joaquim De Lima 17. Matthew Manning | 162,755 | 3.53 | +1.35 |
| | Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | 1. Robert Borsak (elected 20) 2. Shane Djuric 3. Alain Noujaim 4. Kyle Boddan 5. Steven Richards 6. William Thompson 7. Alexander Powell 8. Therese Noujaim 9. Brian Boyle 10. John Howden 11. Kelly Lessage 12. Raffaele Grasso 13. Angelique Noujaim 14. Moses El Salim 15. Mark Van Bysterveld 16. Grant Cappetta 17. Joe Rossi | 144,043 | 3.12 | −2.42 |
| | Animal Justice | 1. Alison Waters 2. Louise Ward 3. Matt Stellino 4. Catherine Blasonato 5. Petra Jones 6. Patrick Murphy 7. Naomi Woodgate 8. Ann Janaway 9. Catherine Ward 10. Sussannah Waters 11. Teresa Tomanovsky 12. Jordy Bertram 13. Kramer Thompson 14. Ellie Robertson 15. Christine Hahn 16. Kate Paterson 17. Lana Mueller | 101,183 | 1.95 | +0.24 |
| | Elizabeth Farrelly Independents | 1. Elizabeth Farrelly 2. Teresa Russell 3. Sunil Badami 4. Philippa Murray 5. Hugo Chan 6. Jennifer Crawford 7. Anne Crawford 8. Caroline Pidcock 9. Julie Walton 10. Jane Stanham 11. Rose Ricketson 12. Andrew Potts 13. Deni McKenzie 14. Marie Sheehan 15. Freddy Sharpe 16. Edilla Ford | 61,163 | 1.32 | +1.32 |
| | Family First | 1. Lyle Shelton 2. Barbara Helvadjian 3. Don Modarelli 4. Richard Stretton 5. Jamie Green 6. Robyn Butt 7. Graham McLennan 8. Craig Dengate 9. Nathaniel Marsh 10. Tracey Bradbury 11. Penelope Windeyer 12. Benjamin Irawan 13. Prue Duignan 14. Glen Ryan 15. Michael Chaplin | 58,361 | 1.26 | +1.26 |
| | Sustainable Australia | 1. William Bourke 2. Hana Oh 3. Bradd Morelli 4. Deborah Smythe 5. Herman Kuipers 6. Xiaowei Yue 7. Torsten Landwehr 8. John Alden 9. Lisa Hilleard 10. Peter Reid 11. Jill Green 12. Ann Burke 13. Mike Cottee 14. David Taylor 15. Susan Kitchener 16. Michael Wilder 17. Alison Noonan 18. Robert Eggleton 19. Cheryl Blacker 20. Alan Magnusson 21. Dean Winter | 42,902 | 0.93 | −0.53 |
| | Australia One | 1. Riccardo Bosi 2. David Graham 3. Jackie George 4. Franco Todisco 5. David Heath 6. Garry Mckinlay 7. Frank Kloepfer 8. Reagan Kloepfer 9. Robyn George 10. Logan George 11. Scott Bowden 12. Kevin Walker 13. Luke George 14. Brad Kirkels 15. Barbara Kafer 16. Noel Anderson 17. Matt Polin 18. Josephine Fsadni | 35,888 | 0.78 | +0.78 |
| | Public Education | 1. Khalil Khay 2. Cheryl McBride 3. Anne Flint 4. Peter Furness 5. Edith McNally 6. Barbara Reynolds 7. Penelope Hackett 8. Warren Poole 9. Neil Robertson 10. Sue Robertson 11. Gemma Ackroyd 12. Hugh Ackroyd 13. Sandi Steep 14. Harry Fox 15. Lynne Fox 16. Kerryanne Knox 17. Vicki Walsh | 34,523 | 0.75 | +0.75 |
| | Informed Medical Options | 1. Michael O'Neill 2. Marelle Burnum 3. Lesley Kinney 4. Kevin Mund 5. Alison Davies 6. Robyn Curnow 7. Megan Bennetts 8. Christeena Middleton 9. Karen Burke 10. Gerard O'Neill 11. Wan Otto 12. Benjamin Fox 13. Craig Grech 14. Monica Shepherd 15. Graham Taylor 16. Karen Tittelbach 17. Ian Davies 18. John Fenwick | 21,362 | 0.46 | +0.46 |
| | Socialist Alliance | 1. Steve O'Brien 2. Paula Sanchez 3. Andrew Chuter 4. Samantha Ashby 5. Joel McAlear 6. Steffi Leedham 7. Jim McIlroy 8. Coral Wynter 9. Isaac Nellist 10. Pip Hinman 11. Peter Boyle 12. Federico Fuentes 13. Ben Radford 14. Duncan Roden 15. James Wyner | 17,056 | 0.37 | +0.05 |
| | United Australia | 1. Craig Kelly 2. Andrew Robertson 3. Rosemary Saad 4. Anne Khoury 5. Dean Mackin 6. Robert Nalbandian 7. Amber Robertson 8. M. Wrightson 9. Philip Kelly | 3,891 | 0.08 | +0.08 |
| | Revive Australia | 1. Silvana Nile 2. Fred Nile | 2,507 | 0.05 | +0.05 |
| | Group P | 1. Danny Lim 2. Lee Lim | 1,356 | 0.03 | +0.03 |
| | Call To Freedom | 1. Milan Maksimovic 2. Deborah Lions 3. Mianda Villatora | 722 | 0.02 | +0.02 |
| | Christians For Community | 1. Milton Caine 2. Robert Skillin | 306 | 0.01 | +0.01 |
| | Socialist Equality | 1. Oscar Grenfell 2. Mike Head | 249 | 0.01 | +0.01 |
| | Independent | Guitang Lu | 158 | 0.00 | +0.00 |
| | Indigenous-Aboriginal | Colleen Fuller | 156 | 0.00 | +0.00 |
| | Independent | Stefan Prasad | 153 | 0.00 | +0.00 |
| | Homes First | Lee Howe | 134 | 0.00 | +0.00 |
| | Independent | Michelle Martin | 89 | 0.00 | +0.00 |
| | Independent | Van Huynh | 83 | 0.00 | +0.00 |
| | Independent | George Potkonyak | 74 | 0.00 | +0.00 |
| | Independent | Mick Allen | 39 | 0.00 | +0.00 |
| | Independent | Archie Lea | 35 | 0.00 | +0.00 |
| | Independent | Warren Grzic | 33 | 0.00 | +0.00 |
| | Independent | Ruth Cheetham | 11 | 0.00 | +0.00 |
| Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 4,616,858 | 94.31 | +0.66 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 278,477 | 5.69 | −0.66 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 4,895,335 | 88.66 | −0.78 |

## Continuing members

The following members of the Legislative Council were not up for re-election this year.
| Party | Member |
| Labor | Mark Buttigieg |
| Labor | Anthony D'Adam |
| Labor | Greg Donnelly |
| Labor | Daniel Mookhey |
| Labor | Tara Moriarty |
| Labor | Peter Primrose |
| Labor | Penny Sharpe |
| Liberal | Aileen MacDonald |
| Liberal | Taylor Martin |
| Liberal | Damien Tudehope |
| Liberal | Natalie Ward |
| Liberal | Casual vacancy |
| National | Wes Fang |
| National | Sam Farraway |
| National | Sarah Mitchell |
| Greens | Abigail Boyd |
| Greens | Sue Higginson |
| One Nation | Rod Roberts |
| One Nation | Casual vacancy |
| Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | Mark Banasiak |
| Animal Justice | Emma Hurst |