Local Government Elections

Local Government Elections

Please click on the following link for further information: LG019 – Results of Election – Carnamah DISTRICT

Please see the list of candidates below for the 2025 Local Government October Elections. Please click on ‘Candidate Details’ for further information.

Con Kikeros – Candidate Details

Dwayne Wooltorton – Candidate Details

Bruce Chisholm – Candidate Details

Ordinary local government elections are held every two years, on the third Saturday in October.

The next Local Government Election Day is Saturday, 18 October 2025 and will be conducted as a postal election by the WA Electoral Commission.

Information for Candidates

In order to stand for election as a Council member, you must:

• be 18 years of age or older;
• be an elector of the Shire of Carnamah;
• not be nominating as a candidate in another election; and
• have completed the mandatory online induction course.

Further information for candidates is available from the following link:

Local government elections | LGIRS

Information for Electors

If you live in or own rateable property in the Shire of Carnamah and meet the relevant eligibility criteria, then you are entitled to vote at Council elections. However, you must be enrolled on either the Residents Roll or the Non-Resident Owners and Occupiers Roll in order to do so, the cut-off date for enrolment is generally 2 months prior to an election.

Residents Roll

If you are enrolled on the State Electoral Roll and you are listed on that Roll as living at an address within the Shire of Carnamah (regardless of whether you own the property or not), then you will be automatically included on the Residents Roll for this Shire.

The Residents Roll is maintained by the WA Electoral Commission. If you are not already on the State electoral roll and you meet the eligibility criteria, or if you have changed address recently, then you must complete an enrolment form which can be downloaded from the WA Electoral Commission website.

You can also check your enrolment details by visiting the Commission’s website.

Any enquiries about the Residents Roll should be directed to the WA Electoral Commission – 13 63 06 (WA only) or (08) 9214 0400.

Non-Resident Owners and Occupiers Roll

If you are a non-resident owner or occupier of rateable property in the Shire of Carnamah and are on the State or Commonwealth Electoral Roll, you are eligible to enrol to vote. Owners of land who were on the last Local Government roll continue to retain that status until they cease to own the rateable property to which the enrolment relates. Occupiers do not have continuous enrolment and should contact the Shire of Carnamah to confirm their enrolment status. To be eligible to enrol as an occupier, you will need to have a right of continuous occupation under a lease, tenancy agreement or other legal instrument for at least the next three months following the date of the application to enrol and have paid rent for at least the prescribed amount.

Local government CEOs have a responsibility to ensure a free and fair election. This includes ensuring that those enrolled to vote have an actual entitlement to be enrolled.

Form 2 – Enrolment Eligibility Claim – Owner or Co-Owner

Form 2A – Enrolment Eligibility Claim – Occupier or Co-Occupier

Joint Owners and Occupiers

Where rateable property is owned or occupied by more than two people, the owners/occupiers may nominate two people from amongst themselves to be enrolled on the Shire’s Non-Resident Owners and Occupiers Roll and to vote on their behalf. The nominees must be enrolled on either the State or Commonwealth Electoral Roll.

Form 2B – Enrolment Eligibility Claim – Nomination by Group of Owners or Occupiers

Corporations

A body corporate which owns or occupies rateable property within the Shire of Carnamah may nominate two people who are officers of the body corporate to be enrolled on the Shire’s Non-Resident Owners and Occupiers Roll and to vote on its behalf. The nominees must be enrolled on either the State or Commonwealth Electoral Roll.

Form 2C – Enrolment Eligibility Claim – Nomination by Body Corporate

Please contact the Shire on (08) 9951 7000 or by emailing shire@carnamah.wa.gov.au for further advice on applying for inclusion on the Shire of Carnamah Non-Resident Owners and Occupiers Roll.

Further Information

Electors can obtain further information with respect to local government elections (including how to enrol to vote prior to the next local government elections) from the following links:

Western Australian Electoral Commission

Local government elections | LGIRS

Local Government Election Results 2023

As the number of candidates were more than the number of vacancies to be filled, an election was required to be held on State Government’s nominated election date of Saturday 21 October 2023.

The election was carried out with early and on the day voting booths at Eneabba and Carnamah.

• Elected 1^st     Merle ISBISTER
• Elected 2^nd    Barbara SMALLWOOD
• Elected 3^rd     Luke RISINGER
• Elected 4^th     Emma OGILVIE

The Councillors Elect were sworn in at a ceremony on Wednesday 25 October 2023 prior to the Special Meeting of Council on the same day.

LG Election 2023 Report