MORE than half of all eligible Indi voters were missing on polling day, having chosen instead to vote early at the electorate's six pre–poll centres or via postal vote.

More than 68,000 (57.9 per cent) of Indi's 117,571 eligible voters cast their choice early – with 17,635 (15 per cent) voting via post and 50,555 (43 per cent) at pre–poll.

Indi was in the top nine electorates across the country for early voting, behind Hinker (QLD, 62.9%), Flinders (VIC, 61.3%), Fraser (VIC, 60.2%), Fisher (QLD, 60/1%), Maranoa (QLD, 59.2%), Longman (QLD, 59.2%), Dickson (QLD, 58.7%) and Bowman (QLD, 58.5%).

Nationally, according to the ABC's chief election analyst Antony Green, a total of 2,731,060 postal vote applications had been received representing 15.9 per cent of enrolment.

This compares to 1,538,139 in 2019 or 9.4 per cent of enrolment.

Mr Green said final pre–polls totalled 5,541,757, compared to a total of 4,778,856 in 2019.

There were just under a million votes taken on Friday, 923,852 in total and 208,000 more than on the final day in 2019.

Despite there being five fewer days of pre–polling in 2022 because of the change in the law, pre–poll votes nationally for 2022 represent 32.2 per cent of enrolled voters compared to 29.9 per cent in 2019.