The Daily Telegraph, 5 December 2021, p.26:
Voters could be waiting until two days before Christmas to find out who their new councillors will be after the state endured one of its more bizarre local government election days.
A record number of postal votes fuelled by Covid-19 concerns will likely delay final results for many of the 124 councils that went to the polls yesterday.
The day saw manure attacks on posters, a car crashing through a polling booth, Covid rule breaches and an independent candidate almost run over…..
Meanwhile in the NSW Northern Rivers region polling places were a bit more laidback.
This was one Ballina polling place......
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| Pics by Greens support worker Jacqui Tweeted by @talking koala |
And vote counting although always a slow process doesn't involve the huge numbers of large metropolitan electorates.
Total Number of Electors in Clarence Valley Local Government Electorate: 38,544 residential and non-residential electors enrolled in the area on 25 October 2021.
Clarence Valley Council First Preference Vote Count, 4 December 2021, 11:02pm
Top 10 candidates in a field of 16 candidates vying for 9 councillor positions:
Jeff Smith - 3,092 votes 19.29% of votes
Debrah Novak - 1,892 votes 11.80% of votes
Greg Clancy - 1,451 votes 9.05% of votes
Allison Waites - 1,332 votes 8.32% of votes
Ian Tiley - 1,214 votes 7.57% of votes
Peter Johnstone - 1,053 votes 6.57% of votes
Bill Day - 1,004 votes 6.26% of votes
Karen Toms - 916 votes 5.71% of votes
Steve Pickering - 859 votes 5.4% of votes
Peter Ellem - 835 votes 5.2% of votes
Only 129 postal votes recorded by 11:02pm Saturday 4 December 2021 and, prepoll voting is not yet included in these numbers.
UPDATE
🙏🐨💖 This was the #BallinasKoalas mum n joey who went to the polling booth on Saturday 💕😍 pic.twitter.com/Zc0XLKqKYC
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