NSW Voters Head to Polls in Tightly Contested Election

A person casts their vote during Australia's general election at a polling station at Bondi Beach in Sydney on May 21, 2022. Steven Saphore/AFP via Getty Images

Voting is under way in New South Wales (NSW), with more than four million people across the state set to decide who will form government for the next four years.

By Mar. 24 close to a quarter of the state’s 5.5 million voters had cast their ballots, with nearly 1.2 million people pre-polling and 92,000 lodging postal votes.