{"id":811,"date":"2012-04-10T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=811"},"modified":"2020-10-02T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:08:36","slug":"handy-guide-to-council-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/04\/10\/handy-guide-to-council-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Handy Guide To Council Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1632\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/voting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1632  \" title=\"2012 Council Elections\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/voting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/voting.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/voting-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voting is compulsory<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>Confused about the upcoming Council election on April 28?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understandable &#8230; especially if you live in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecq.qld.gov.au\/myCouncil_2012.aspx?id=4036\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>South Burnett Regional Council<\/strong><\/a> area.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in <strong>Division 2<\/strong> (Blackbutt, Maidenwell, Bunya Mountains), <strong>Division 3<\/strong> (Kingaroy, south of Haly Street) or <strong>Division 5<\/strong> (Murgon) then you DON&#8217;T have to vote. This is because there is only one person standing in each of these divisions so they will be elected unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in <strong>Division 1<\/strong> have the choice of four candidates: Barry Green, Steve Jeffery, Mark Ladyman or Sandy Towell<\/p>\n<p>Voters in\u00a0<strong>Division 4<\/strong> have the choice of\u00a0two candidates: Keith Campbell or Terry Fleischfresser<\/p>\n<p>Voters in <strong>Division 6<\/strong> have the choice of two candidates: Cheryl Dalton or Don Pinwill<\/p>\n<p>A vote for the Mayoral position is unnecessary as there is only one candidate: Wayne Kratzmann.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>Voters in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecq.qld.gov.au\/myCouncil_2012.aspx?id=3994\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cherbourg Aboriginal Council<\/strong><\/a> area have the choice of two candidates for Mayor and must select four councillors from the 11 names who are standing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecq.qld.gov.au\/myCouncil_2012.aspx?id=4006\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gympie Regional Council<\/strong><\/a> area, four men are competing for the mayoral role and every Division has multiple candidates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecq.qld.gov.au\/myCouncil_2012.aspx?id=4040\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Toowoomba Regional Council<\/strong><\/a> area has possibly the most candidates: six are challenging for the mayoral role and 31 for the 10 councillors&#8217; positions. But voters in this council area have the easiest way of voting: instead of attending a polling booth on election day, they will vote via mail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Know Who&#8217;s Standing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Download our handy<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southburnett.biz\/pdfs\/ballotlists.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>guide to candidates<\/strong><\/a> (14 kb PDF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t Know What Division You&#8217;re In?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out these interactive maps from the Electoral Commission of Queensland:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecq.qld.gov.au\/myCouncil_2012.aspx?id=4036\" target=\"_blank\">South Burnett region<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecq.qld.gov.au\/myCouncil_2012.aspx?id=4006\" target=\"_blank\">Gympie region<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t Know Where To Vote?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lists of polling booth locations:<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecq.qld.gov.au\/elections\/2012\/lgBooths\/South%20Burnett%20Regional.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">South Burnett region<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(134kb PDF)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecq.qld.gov.au\/elections\/2012\/lgBooths\/Gympie%20Regional.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Gympie region<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(140kb PDF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(NB. The Toowoomba Regional Council ballot is being conducted by mail. Toowoomba Regional Council area residents who have not yet received a ballot paper should contact the ECQ on 1300-881-665.)<\/p>\n<p><em>And don&#8217;t forget: voting is compulsory!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confused about the upcoming Council election?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Handy Guide To Council Elections - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/04\/10\/handy-guide-to-council-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Handy Guide To Council Elections - 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