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Final enrolment numbers now available

Updated: 21 April 2022

17,228,900 Australians are enrolled to vote in the upcoming 2022 federal election.

Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers said that following Tuesday’s announcement of Australia’s biggest ever day of enrolment, the AEC can now confirm 96.8% of eligible Australians are enrolled.

“With many nations around the world campaigning to get even three quarters of their population enrolled to vote, this result is a contiuning source of Australian democratic pride,” Mr Rogers said.

“The roll has increased in pure number terms by 804,652 since the previous federal election in 2019, a rise of 4.9 per cent.”

“In the close of rolls week, approximately 100,000 people were added to the roll with 617,000 other eligible Australians updating their details.”

“Around 80,000 young Australians aged 18-24 jumped online in the week after the election was announced, resulting in 88.1 percent of that age cohort being ready to have their say this May.

“Australians stepped up, AEC staff worked hard to validate and process enrolments, and our systems coped well with the load.”

“Well done Australia. Now, it’s time to plan your vote.”

Enrolment numbers
Ages NSW VIC QLD WA SA TAS ACT NT Total Share of total
18* 59,276 49,477 38,226 19,303 13,905 4,086 4,203 931 189,407 1.1%
19 74,418 57,263 45,135 23,895 15,544 5,076 4,654 1,524 227,509 1.3%
20‑24 401,838 319,101 275,908 131,747 89,336 27,080 25,947 11,032 1,281,989 7.4%
25-29 418,542 347,073 284,821 138,064 94,998 28,487 28,547 14,971 1,355,503 7.9%
30-34 440,071 369,563 286,094 150,656 97,258 28,954 30,132 16,514 1,419,242 8.2%
35-39 471,024 391,702 297,786 164,743 102,929 29,701 32,424 16,233 1,506,542 8.7%
40-44 457,218 368,598 289,086 154,245 97,400 28,878 30,214 14,463 1,440,102 8.4%
45-49 455,270 360,564 294,922 148,757 98,616 30,308 27,706 13,636 1,429,779 8.3%
50-54 461,390 372,386 302,132 154,991 107,411 34,179 26,188 13,889 1,472,566 8.5%
55-59 438,806 343,545 281,701 143,669 104,764 34,142 22,603 12,016 1,381,246 8.0%
60-64 439,807 334,549 277,101 137,346 106,650 36,983 20,778 10,235 1,363,449 7.9%
65-69 390,187 297,149 246,268 122,580 97,195 33,757 17,744 7,947 1,212,827 7.0%
70+ 964,622 733,238 584,429 283,973 246,041 80,700 43,189 12,547 2,948,739 17.1%
Total 5,472,469 4,344,208 3,503,609 1,773,969 1,272,047 402,331 314,329 145,938 17,228,900 100.0%