{"id":107053,"date":"2024-11-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/?p=107053"},"modified":"2024-11-18T15:26:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T04:26:53","slug":"recounts-held-for-three-wards-in-council-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/news\/recounts-held-for-three-wards-in-council-election\/","title":{"rendered":"City councillors officially declared after recounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE new City of Greater Geelong council has been officially declared after recounts in three wards.<\/p>\n<p>The Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) calculated the results in this year&#8217;s local council election for each of the city&#8217;s 11 single-member wards on Saturday, provisionally electing the councillors.<\/p>\n<p>Councillors are not formally elected under the VEC officially declares the results for each municipality, and close results in the city&#8217;s Connewarre, Charlemont and Deakin wards led the VEC to conduct a recount and push back its declaration of results, which took place earlier today (Thursday, November 14).<\/p>\n<p>Six incumbent councillors were re-elected.<\/p>\n<p>The 11 successful candidates for the city are below, listed alphabetically by ward name:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barrabool Hills Ward \u2013 Ron Nelson, with 51.67 of first preference votes<\/li>\n<li>Charlemont Ward \u2013 Emma Sinclair, with 51.92 per cent of all votes after the distribution of preferences<\/li>\n<li>Cheetham Ward \u2013 Melissa Cadwell, with 45.26 per cent of first preference votes<\/li>\n<li>Connewarre Ward \u2013 Elise Wilkinson, with 50.01 per cent of first preference votes<\/li>\n<li>Corio Ward \u2013 Anthony Aitken, with 48.19 per cent of first preference votes<\/li>\n<li>Deakin Ward \u2013 Andrew Katos, with 54.12 per cent of all votes after the distribution of preferences<\/li>\n<li>Hamlyn Heights \u2013 Eddy Kontelj, with 45.69 per cent of first preference votes<\/li>\n<li>Kardinia Ward \u2013 Stretch Kontelj, with 28.18 per cent of first preference votes<\/li>\n<li>Leopold Ward \u2013 Trent Sullivan, with 56.21 per cent of first preference votes, and<\/li>\n<li>Murradoc Ward \u2013 Rowan D. Story, with 51.21 per cent of first preference votes, and<\/li>\n<li>You Yangs \u2013 Chris Burson, with 47.88 per cent of first preference votes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, head to <a href=\"http:\/\/vec.vic.gov.au\/voting\/2024-local-council-elections\/greater-geelong-city-council\/results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vec.vic.gov.au\/voting\/2024-local-council-elections\/greater-geelong-city-council\/results<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE new City of Greater Geelong council has been officially declared after recounts in three wards. The Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) calculated the results in this year&#8217;s local council election for each of the city&#8217;s 11 single-member wards on Saturday, provisionally electing the councillors. 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