How-to-vote corflutes greeted Yass Valley Council voters outside the town’s Anglican Church on Saturday. Photo: Sally Hopman.
Yass Valley Council looks set for an upset with a number of long-term councillors tipped to lose their seats.
As of Tuesday (17 September), with postal votes yet to be counted, first preference votes, according to the NSW Electoral Commission, show the former mayor Allan McGrath on 770 votes.
Councillor McGrath has lived in the Yass Valley since 1998. He has had a long connection to local government, serving on both the former Queanbeyan City and Yass Valley councils.
Third-term councillor and businesswoman Jasmin Jones received 693 votes and former deputy mayor, Cayla Pothan, who has lived in the Yass Valley for 18 years with her family and has run the Tootsie Gallery since 2015, recorded 638 first preference votes. All three are independents.
Councillor Cecil Burgess, with almost 30 years of local government experience, received 777 votes.
The best performer according to the commission’s first preferences count, was independent councillor Kristin Butler, who has lived in Murrumbateman for 12 years. She received 1005 first preference votes.
Adrian Cameron from the Greens recorded 938 votes, his colleague Tanya Cullen, 353, while newcomers’ counts included independent David Rothwell (875), Fleur Flanery (861), independent David Carter (741), independent Alvaro Charry (650) and independent Mattthew Stadtmiller (396).
The informal vote rate was 7.44 per cent.
These figures were provided by the NSW Electoral Commission on Monday (16 September), following the vote on Saturday (14 September).
A spokesperson said counting began after voting closed at 6 pm on Saturday night and resumed on Monday morning. Figures will be updated once postal votes are counted.
According to the commission, 12,998 residential and non-residential electors were enrolled in the Yass Valley Council local government area with 12 candidates vying for nine positions on the council.
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