Electoral results for the Division of Nicholls

This is a list of electoral results for the Division of Nicholls in Australian federal elections from the division's creation in 2019 until the present.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Damian Drum	National	2019–2022
	Sam Birrell		2022–present

Election results

Elections in the 2020s

2025

2025 Australian federal election: Nicholls^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Kim Travers
	Family First	Paul Edward Bachelor
	Trumpet of Patriots	Glenn Francis Floyd
	One Nation	Aaron Tyrrell
	National	Sam Birrell
	Citizens	Jeff Davy
	Greens	Shelby Eade
Total formal votes
Informal votes
Turnout

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2025 Australian federal election in Victoria § Nicholls.[edit]

2022

2022 Australian federal election: Nicholls^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Sam Birrell	24,886	26.14	−25.13
	Independent	Rob Priestly	24,287	25.51	+25.51
	Liberal	Steve Brooks	17,187	18.06	+18.06
	Labor	Bill Lodwick	10,970	11.52	−7.89
	One Nation	Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell	6,219	6.53	−4.76
	United Australia	Robert Peterson	3,821	4.01	−1.32
	Liberal Democrats	Tim Laird	3,366	3.54	+3.54
	Greens	Ian Christoe	3,058	3.21	−1.00
	Fusion	Andrea Otto	653	0.69	+0.69
	Citizens	Jeff Davy	377	0.40	+0.40
	Federation	Eleonor Tabone	367	0.39	+0.39
Total formal votes			95,191	92.11	−0.43
Informal votes			8,159	7.89	+0.43
Turnout			103,350	90.35	−2.98
Notional two-party-preferred count
	National	Sam Birrell	63,918	67.15	−2.88
	Labor	Bill Lodwick	31,273	32.85	+2.88
Two-candidate-preferred result
	National	Sam Birrell	51,221	53.81	−16.22
	Independent	Rob Priestly	43,970	46.19	+46.19
	National hold

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Australian federal election in Victoria § Nicholls.[edit]

Alluvial diagram for preference flows in the seat of Nicholls in the 2022 federal election. Y indicates at what stage the winning candidate had over 50% of the votes and was declared the winner.

Elections in the 2010s

2019

2019 Australian federal election: Nicholls^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Damian Drum	48,855	51.27	+18.58
	Labor	Bill Lodwick	18,493	19.41	+2.32
	One Nation	Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell	10,754	11.29	+11.29
	United Australia	Stewart Hine	5,077	5.33	+5.33
	Independent	Andrew Bock	4,581	4.81	+3.39
	Greens	Nickee Freeman	4,011	4.21	−0.23
	Independent	Jeremy Parker	1,772	1.86	+1.86
	Independent	Nigel Hicks	1,749	1.84	+1.00
Total formal votes			95,292	92.54	+1.16
Informal votes			7,679	7.46	−1.16
Turnout			102,971	92.65	−0.80
Two-party-preferred result
	National	Damian Drum	66,732	70.03	−2.49
	Labor	Bill Lodwick	28,560	29.97	+2.49
	National notional hold		Swing	−2.49

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2019 Australian federal election in Victoria § Nicholls.[edit]

Nicholls was a new seat, notionally held by the Nationals.