Election results feed

The NSW Electoral Commission provides a live feed of election results to media organisations and other interested parties during state and local government general elections. 

How does it work?

The election results feed is an XML data feed supplying real-time election results for publication. It is available from approximately 7pm on election night and is updated continuously during the initial count as new results become available.  

For state election events, both Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council progressive result extracts are provided. 

For local government election events, both Mayor and Councillor contest progressive result extracts are provided. Results for referendum and poll are also provided commencing the week after election day.

Only initial count data is provided via the feed, not the check count (data entry results).

The feed requires data analysis and programming expertise to make use of and is not in human-readable form. Before proceeding to register your interest, you should review the election results feed user guide and other information below to confirm its suitability for your purposes, as well as your technical capability to make use of it. 

The feed extract files are made available from our access-restricted FTP site which requires that you have a static IP address. 

To request access, register your interest below. You will then be required to sign our terms of use agreement prior to access being granted.

Download the election results feed user guide (PDF, 3.6MB) 

Register your interest for 2024 NSW Local Government elections feed

A results feed will be available to news organisations for the 2024 NSW Local Government elections on Saturday, 14 September.

Please register your interest as early as possible to allow for any troubleshooting that may be required. The NSW Electoral Commission strongly recommends participation in dress rehearsals ahead of election day.  

• The deadlines to register interest and participate in dress rehearsals to test access to the feed, are Thursday, 15 August (Dress rehearsal #1) and Thursday 22 August (Dress rehearsal #2).
• The deadline to register interest for this feed if you wish to receive it on election day with no pre-testing is Friday, 30 August.

To register your interest or for any further questions, please contact the media team at nswecmedia@elections.nsw.gov.au. You will need to re-register for each election event.