Katoomba Leura Online

The 2013 federal election repeated results of 2010 to show ALP candidate Susan Templeman comprehensively winning the mid & upper mountains polling, but losing to the weight of numbers in north Western Sydney and some of the towns east of Springwood. Two party preferred results for the upper mountains polling place are in the table below.

The AEC has finalised results for Macquarie (despite 115 ballots going missing).

Louise Markus won by a final margin of 2135 votes with a swing of 1.49% on preferences. Interestingly, both the Labor and Liberal experienced swings against them on first preferences.