8:00am Monday – All of the results of NSW council elections conducted by the NSW Electoral Commission are due to be declared over the course of today and tomorrow.
For this campaign I have focused on the 27 most populous councils (2 of which, Fairfield and Liverpool, have employed a private provider to conduct their elections and thus are not part of this process). For the last few weeks I have been tracking the count in the 26 of those councils where parties play a large role (sorry, Ku-ring-gai). This is my most recent post analysing the races I am yet to call.
The NSWEC has published a schedule of when each council result will be declared. Two in fact: one for mayor and one for councillors.
I have converted this schedule into a spreadsheet and then matched that to my estimates of who has won and who is likely to win for the 95 contests being held in the 24 partisan councils being run by the NSWEC.
Of these 95 contests, I have identified 29 where I have been unable to call the final result, covering 30 seats uncalled (thanks to two seats being unclear in Central Coast Budgewoi). One of the tabs of the spreadsheet simply lists these 29 contests in order of when declarations are due.
The mayors are being mostly declared first, and should be done by 10:30am. The last council declarations are due at 4pm tomorrow. Of course there may be some delay in the time between when a declaration is made and when it is publicly available online, but this gives you a sense of where to look first.
Bayside 2 and Blacktown 2 are both due at 11am, with Bayside 3 at 11:15am. The declarations are due in a roughly alphabetical order, with The Hills North being the last uncalled race to be declared at 3:30pm on Monday.
That’s it for now, but I’ll drop in every few hours with updates over the course of today and tomorrow.