Now forming — interest closes 20 August

Electoral Preparedness Team

Quiet, internal homework so the group can move the moment approvals come.

What it’s for

The NSW state election is locked in for Saturday 13 March 2027 — nominations close 24 February — and the 2028 federal election follows it. Preselection and public campaigning need party approval; being ready does not.

This team does the preparatory work now: understanding the seats within Wentworth, identifying people who could step forward, and building the plans we will need. All internal, nothing public.

The patch

This is the whole battlefield: about 31 square kilometres, from Watsons Bay around the coast to Bronte and west to Paddington — one of the smallest electorates in the country, with roughly 127,000 enrolled voters.

You can drive end to end in twenty minutes. Every booth, every street, every conversation is within reach — which is exactly why preparation here pays off.

Numbers that should make you curious

• A 1% swing in Wentworth is about 1,100 votes. Elections here are moved by numbers an organised group can actually reach.
• In 2025 One Nation snatched the last NSW Senate seat from Labor by roughly 14,000 votes out of nearly five million — about a quarter of one percent. That single result helped take the party from one senator to four.
• A Senate seat needs one-seventh of the state vote — about 14%. A House seat needs 50% plus one. The same effort buys very different leverage, and knowing where to spend it is exactly this team’s job.
• In 2025, a third of Australians gave their first preference to someone other than the major parties — the highest on record.

Every figure here is from the AEC, the NSW Electoral Commission, or published election analysis.

What the work actually is

• Map the NSW state seats that overlap the Wentworth federal electorate
• Identify and quietly sound out people who might one day put their hand up
• Draft the practical plans — booths, volunteers, materials — an election actually runs on
• Report progress to each monthly meeting

How much time, honestly?

A couple of hours a month of reading, thinking and the odd conversation — until an election is called, when this becomes the busiest and most important team we have.

Most of these roles take an hour or two a week. When an election is called it becomes all hands on deck — and you will want to have been part of it by then.

Would I be any good at it?

No campaign experience needed — the work right now is reading, mapping and note-taking, and you will pick up the mechanics as we go.

• You follow politics closely and enjoy the mechanics, not just the commentary
• You can keep internal work internal
• You want your effort to land where elections are actually won

Not sure? Have a go. Ease in — take a small job, see how it fits, step up or step back as life allows. Registering interest is a conversation, not a contract.