Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2020 Perth City Council election was held on 17 October 2020 to elect a lord mayor and eight councillors to the City of Perth, a local government area of Western Australia. These were the first elections for the council in over two years, after it was suspended in March 2018 due to issues arising from the behaviour of councillors.
Labor's victory was built on a near-sweep of Perth. Labor had gone into the election holding 33 of Perth's 43 seats (having lost one at a by-election). It won an additional nine in 2021, some on swings of over 10 percent, leaving Cottesloe as the only non-Labor seat in the capital. Many of Labor's gains came in seats long considered Liberal ...
The previous mayoral election was held in October 2020, following the council's suspension by the Western Australian state government in 2018. [1] Four of the eight councillors elected in 2020 faced another election in 2021, while the remaining four had their terms expire in 2023. [2]
PERTH AMBOY – Three Democrats and one Republican have filed to run in the mayoral primary in June, the city's first partisan election. Mayor Helmin Caba will be challenged by retired Municipal ...
The Sunday Times is a tabloid Sunday newspaper published by Seven West Media, in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia. Founded as The West Australian Sunday Times, it was renamed The Sunday Times from 30 March 1902. [1] Owned since 1955 by News Limited, the newspaper and its website PerthNow, were sold to Seven West Media in 2016 ...
The seat was re-established at the 1962 election with different boundaries [3] —the neighbouring seats of West Perth, East Perth and North Perth having all been abolished in the 1961 redistribution—and was won by Labor's Stanley Heal, the previous member for West Perth. He was defeated at the 1965 election by Peter Durack of the Liberal ...
[b] The only times since the mid-20th century when the state has decided an election were: 1998, when the first returns from the state assured a second term for John Howard; 2010, when the victory of a state Nationals candidate who did not identify with the federal party allowed Julia Gillard to stay in office with a minority government
South Perth is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in Western Australia. The district is located in the suburbs immediately south of the Perth central business district . Although occasionally held by an independent , South Perth has typically been a safe Liberal seat.