Voting closed at 6pm sharp on Saturday 14 September in the NSW Local Government elections and the initial count results from all polling booths and pre-poll across Yass Valley were posted at 10:35pm last night.
This year’s front runner is re-standing independent candidate, Kristin Butler who quickly climbed to 1,005 votes.
Butler dominated polling booths at Murrumbateman with 486 of 1,423 formal votes, and Wattle Park Church with 89 of 476 formal votes.
The Greens, Adrian Cameron follows in second position with 935 votes, receiving steady numbers across booths. His highest count of 340 votes was recorded at the St Clements pre-poll booth where 3,622 voters chose to vote early.
New candidates looking exceedingly strong are David Rothwell on 869 votes, and Fleur Flanery on 860 votes. Flanery scored the highest pre-poll votes of 417, followed by an equal 398 votes received by each Rothwell and re-standing candidate and past Mayor, Allan McGrath.
Adrian Cameron
David Rothwell
Fleur Flanery
Following the top four and still with a high chance of election is:
Cecil Burgess, 773
Allan McGrath, 763
David Carter, 739
Jasmin Jones, 690
Alvaro Charry, 650
Cayla Pothan, 638
Not out of the race but receiving a lower number of votes on election day is Matthew Stadtmiller on 394 and Tanya Cullen on 353.
Cec Burgess
Allan McGrath
David Carter
Jasmin Jones
Alvaro Charry
Cayla Pothan
Matthew Stadtmiller
Tanya Cullen
The current ranking of candidates is likely to change as the formal postal votes are released and recorded in the tally room. We should start to see some declaration votes filter in from Monday then continue daily, possibly up until the end of September.
At this stage, there is still a chance for any of the 12 candidates to claim a chair in the Chamber with declaration votes to be counted before the quota is determined, the first exclusion and preference votes allocated.
The quota is a number of votes a candidate aims to reach to become elected and is a formula calculated from votes received less informal votes divided by the number of positions plus one.
The current listed quota of 867 is a progressive number as not all votes have been counted and by our calculations the final quota shouldn’t exceed 1,088.
All candidates are still in the race. The probability of the two candidates with the lowest numbers rising enough to see them elected are slim but not unattainable. They would each need around one quarter of the expected postal votes to catch the candidates immediately ahead of them.
Counting will resume from Monday, 16 September (there is no counting Sunday) with updates to be published daily to the Virtual Tally room.