Seven new faces join the Narrabri Shire Council

The final election results for Narrabri Shire Council have been released and the next council term will feature seven new faces.

Following the final distribution of preferences, results were updated on the NSW Electoral Commission’s website on Tuesday morning.

Current mayor Ron Campbell and former mayor Cathy Redding, who were both part of the previous council term, will be joined by Greg Lamont, Robert Browning, Darrell Tiemens, Lisa Richardson, John Clements, Brett Dickinson and Rohan Boehm.

Cr Campbell, Mr Lamont and Mr Browning were elected on first preferences. The remaining six positions were determined after preferences were distributed.

Darrell Tiemens was the first of the six candidates elected during the distribution of preferences, followed by Group B lead candidate Rohan Boehm and then ungrouped candidates Lisa Richardson, Cathy Redding, John Clements and Brett Dickinson.

The final results have seen two candidates from Group A, one from Group B and six ungrouped candidates elected to council.

Of the 9235 people eligible to vote at the election, 7387 ballot papers were counted representing a turnout of almost 80 per cent.

Informal votes totalled 345 (4.67 per cent).

Final first preference votes for all candidates were 1816 for Group A, 650 for Group B, 1135 for Ron Campbell, 575 for Darrell Tiemens, 458 for Lisa Richardson, 423 for John Clements, 361 for Cathy Redding, 352 for Brett Dickinson, 274 for Ronald (John) Tully, 226 for Cameron Staines, 178 for Ron Campey, 167 for Lloyd Finlay, 166 for Les Knox, 145 for Maryanne McDonald and 116 for Crystal Dwyer.

The new Narrabri Shire Council elected members will first officially meet at the ordinary meeting on Tuesday, January 11.

A new mayor and deputy mayor will be elected by the new council term at this meeting.