2021 Local Government Elections

3 Vacancies, 4 year term 

Councillors with expired terms eligible for re-election: Councillors Barratt, Chester and Sheen. 

Nominations

Candidate Nomination	Nomination received	Nomination Form & Profile
BARRATT, Christine	7 September 2021	See here
CHESTER, Julie	7 September 2021	See here
CHESTER, Graham	9 September 2021	See here
ASHTON, Mark	9 September 2021	See here

Election results

The 2021 Local Government Election for the Shire of Goomalling was held on the 16^th October 2021 as a voting in person election.   Early voting was in place for about a month prior to the date and electors could also place their votes on the day.

65 people took the opportunity to vote early with a further 68 cast on the day and one absent vote was received.   There was a total of 681 voters who were eligible to vote with only 134 actually taking the opportunity to do so, which is only 19.67% of the electorate.   This is an extremely low turnout as at the previous election 30.6% of electors voted which was considered low at the time.

The result of the election was as follows;

Candidate	Total Votes	Result
CHESTER, Julie	121	Elected term expires 18 October 2025
ASHTON, Mark	111	Elected term expires 18 October 2025
BARRATT, Christine	93	Elected term expires 18 October 2025
CHESTER, Graham	71

Congratulations to our three new councillors and commiserations to Graham, it was a very close result with a worthy field of candidates.

Councillors will be sworn in at the October Council meeting and the election of a President and Deputy President will also take place.  Our thanks to Rod Sheen for his many years of service to the Shire and we wish him well in his semi-retirement from Council duties.

 

PETER BENTLEY

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER