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The 2012 New South Wales local elections were held on 8 September 2012 to elect the councils of 150 of the 152 local government areas (LGAs) of New South Wales. Several councils also held mayoral elections and/or referendums. [1]
The elections were conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission, with the exception of 14 councils who chose to conduct their own elections or use the services of the private Australian Election Company. [2]
No elections were held in Shellharbour or Wollongong as electors had voted a year prior in 2011, following the sackings of both councils in 2008. [3] [4]
The Liberal Party chose not to contest the elections in Fairfield and Penrith, leading to Liberal councillors running as Independent Liberals. [5] [6]
More than 16 wards across the state were uncontested. [7]
The following registered parties contested this election. This does not include groups of independents:
In addition, a number of local government-registered parties also contested the elections. [8]
Council | Ward | Councillor | Former party | New party | Date | ||
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Hornsby Shire | Mayor | Nick Berman | Liberal | Independent | 11 November 2010 [9] | ||
Newcastle | Ward 4 | Mike Jackson | Labor | Independent | 16 February 2011 | ||
Newcastle | Ward 4 | Mike Jackson | Independent | Liberal | 15 April 2011 | ||
Auburn | First Ward | Le Lam | Unity | Independent | 2011 | ||
Ashfield | South | Morris Mansour | Liberal | Independent | 2011 [10] | ||
Uralla | A Ward | Isabel Strutt | Christian Democrats | Independent | 2012 |
The Liberal Democrats had their first-ever electoral victories, with Jeff Pettett and Clinton Mead elected to Ku-ring-gai Council and Campbelltown City Council respectively.
The election of Tony Oldfield to Auburn City Council remains the only time the present-day Communist Party of Australia had had an electoral win.
Australia First councillor Maurice Girotto left the party in 2013 to sit as an independent, before joining the Christian Democrats in March 2016. [11]
Following the elections, major changes occurred as a result of the enactment of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948 and as a result of a review by the NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) that commenced in 2013. On 12 May 2016, following a further review by the Minister for Local Government and the independent Local Government Boundaries Commission, Premier Mike Baird announced Stage 1 starting with 19 new councils, through amalgamations and mergers, with immediate effect. The Minister indicated in principle support to create a further nine new councils, subject to the decision of the courts. [12] [13] On the same day, the Governor of New South Wales acted on the advice of the Minister, and proclaimed the 19 new local government areas. Another proclamation occurred a few months later with the amalgamation of City of Botany Bay and City of Rockdale. [14]
This resulted in 79 councils being contested in 2016 and 46 in 2017, before the vast majority contested together again in 2021.
The New South Wales Electoral Commission held a number of by-elections to fill vacancies on councils after the 2012 elections up until 2016. [15]
Council | Ward | Before | Change | Result after preference distribution | |||||||||
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Councillor | Party | Cause | Date | Date | Party | Candidate | % | ||||||
Hurstville | Hurstville | 15 March 2014 | Labor | Brent Thomas | 57.59 | ||||||||
Liberal | Tim Feng [lower-alpha 1] | 30.44 | |||||||||||
Woollahra | Double Bay | 15 March 2014 | Liberal | James Keulemans | 55.80 | ||||||||
Residents First | Anne Crooks [lower-alpha 1] | 25.25 | |||||||||||
Willoughby | Sailors Bay | Gail Giles-Gidney | Independent Liberal | Elected as mayor | 12 April 2014 | 14 June 2014 | Independent | Rachel Hill | 64.79 | ||||
Independent | Vache Kahramanian [lower-alpha 1] | 22.51 | |||||||||||
Brewarrina | Unsubdivided | Jeanette Barker | Independent | Death | March 2014 | 21 June 2014 | Independent | Bill Loughnan | 56.48 | ||||
Independent | Tommy Stanton | 43.52 | |||||||||||
Leichhardt | Birrabirragal/Balmain | Melinda Manikas | Liberal | Death | 8 May 2014 | 2 August 2014 | Independent | John Stamolis | 60.61 | ||||
Labor | Aaron Di Pietro | 39.39 | |||||||||||
Woollahra | Double Bay | 23 August 2014 | Independent | John Doyle | N/A | ||||||||
Elected unopposed | |||||||||||||
Cobar | Unsubdivided | 23 August 2014 | Independent | Peter Abbott | 85.80 | ||||||||
Independent | Peter Florance | 14.20 | |||||||||||
Marrickville | West | Emanuel Tsardoulias | Labor | Death | 19 August 2014 | 23 August 2014 | Labor | Daniel Barbar | 50.08 | ||||
Greens | Justine Langford [lower-alpha 1] | 33.05 | |||||||||||
Blue Mountains | First Ward | 15 November 2014 | Labor | Sarah Shrubb | 53.71 | ||||||||
Greens | Kerry Brown | 46.29 | |||||||||||
Blue Mountains | Second Ward | 15 November 2014 | Labor | Victoria Arney | 53.01 | ||||||||
Independent | Rob Thompson | 46.99 | |||||||||||
Clarence Valley | Unsubdivided | 21 February 2015 | Independent | Arthur Lysaught | N/A | ||||||||
Elected unopposed | |||||||||||||
Newcastle | Ward 3 | 21 February 2015 | Labor | Declan Clausen | 53.15 | ||||||||
Independent | Kath Elliott | 46.85 | |||||||||||
Ryde | East | 21 February 2015 | Liberal | Jane Stott | 52.77 | ||||||||
Labor | Penny Pedersen | 47.23 | |||||||||||
Wakool | B Ward | 5 March 2016 | Independent | David Landini | N/A | ||||||||
Elected unopposed | |||||||||||||
Wakool | C Ward | Colin Membrey | Independent | Resignation | December 2015 | 5 March 2016 | No candidate declared elected | ||||||
Wakool | C Ward | N/A | N/A | No candidate elected | 5 March 2016 | 9 April 2016 | Independent | Alan Mathers | 69.06 | ||||
Independent | Christine Dartnell | 30.94 |
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