March 30, 2016
The results of Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council’s election were finalised on Wednesday evening.
As expected, Arnold Murray has been elected as Mayor.
He will replace former Mayor Ken Bone, who decided to stand down at the March 19 election.
Alana Purcell, James Saltner, Elvie Sandow and Tom Langton have been elected to fill the remaining Councillor roles.
The delay in announcing the results was caused by the need to wait for postal ballots to close, which occurred on March 29.
The final result was determined by postal votes.
Cherbourg uses a whole-of-shire, first past the post voting system.
In all, there were 438 electors at the close of the roll, which was an increase from the 407 enrolled at the 2012 local government elections.
Informal votes accounted for 7.27 per cent of all votes cast at this election, up from 1.48 per cent in 2012.
Seven candidates stood for Mayor at this election.
Only two stood in 2012, where Ken Bone secured almost 79 per cent of the vote.
Fourteen candidates stood for the four Councillor positions at this election, up slightly from the 11 who stood in 2012.
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