Local Government Elections October 2025
The results for the 2025 Local Government Elections for the Shire of Chittering are as follows:
The Form 19. Results of Election can be found here.
Please see the list of candidates below for the 2025 Local Government October Elections:
Local Government Elections
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.
Close of Enrolments Notice
Call for Nominations Notice
Election Notice - Ordinary Postal Election
Form 19. Results of Election
The 2025 elections for the Shire of Chittering will be conducted as postal elections by the WA Electoral Commission.
Three vacancies will be contested at this election.
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 Chittering;
- 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 links:
Western Australian Electoral Commission
Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety
The WAEC has developed a video resource to support candidates nominating for the 2025 local government elections. The video includes information about eligibility to be a candidate, the nomination process, postal voting information, voting and election day and election night processes. The video is available from the WAEC website here, and from their YouTube channel here.
Contacting the Returning Officer
The Returning Officer for the 2025 Shire of Chittering elections has now been appointed by the WA Electoral Commission.
Julie Roscoe can be contacted as follows:
Email: LGro_Chittering@elections.wa.gov.au
Mobile: 0459 892 592
All enquiries in relation to the nomination process should be directed to the Returning Officer.
Electoral Roll
Residents who live in the Shire and are enrolled to vote in the State or Federal elections for where they live are automatically enrolled to vote. Owners or occupiers of rateable land who live outside of the district in which the property is located may be entitled to nominate two people to vote on their behalf.
The Shire’s electoral roll used for Council elections is comprised of two parts: the resident’s roll and the non-residents owners and occupiers roll. Combining these two rolls produces a consolidated roll.
Residents’ Roll
People who reside in the Shire (irrespective of whether they own the property or are tenants) and who are on the state electoral roll for that property, will automatically be on the residents’ roll and can vote in the Shire of Chittering local government election. No separate enrolment for the Shire is necessary.
Enquiries about the residents roll should be directed to the Western Australian Electoral Commission on 13 63 06 or check your enrolment eligibility status through the Western Australian Electoral Commission website.
Non-resident owners and occupiers roll
The non-resident owners and occupiers roll is maintained by the Shire. It includes individuals who own (but do not reside in) rateable property in the Shire or who occupy rateable property in the Shire. It also includes individuals nominated by companies, businesses or corporate bodies that own or occupy rateable property in the Shire. Each person applying to go onto this roll must be on the state or commonwealth electoral roll for a property outside the Shire’s district.
Any person who is not an Australian citizen (and thus not eligible to be on the state or commonwealth electoral roll) may still be able to vote in local government elections if the person appeared on the Shire’s 1996 electoral roll, and has owned or occupied rateable property within the ward continuously since at least March 1996.
Individuals or corporate bodies may only be on the roll or represented on the roll in one capacity, that is, either as owners or occupiers. Where both capacities are available to an individual or a body corporate, the owner category would normally be chosen because of the longer term on the roll.
Election Signage
An election sign is a sign which encourages a person to vote for a particular political candidate, political party, referenda or matter relating to any Federal, State, or Local Government election, however, excludes bumper stickers.
Main Roads Requirements
With regard to road reserves, Main Roads has its own requirements – refer attached extract from the Main Roads Policy (Policy and Application Guidelines for Advertising Signs Within and Beyond State Road Reserves). Please note the following requirements:
4.4.3.2 Location
Temporary event signs (which includes election signage) shall not be located:
- on traffic islands, including roundabouts
- on median strips
- on road verges with a road speed limit greater than 90 km/h
- where they are at risk of causing an obstruction to the passage or sightlines of drivers, bicyclists or pedestrians travelling along or crossing roads or driveways
- within 100 m of a roadworks site
Temporary event signs shall not be attached to:
- existing signs, including other advertising signs
- any road-related infrastructure such as traffic sign supports, overhead bridges, bus shelters, lighting/power poles, etc, or trees
If attached to any infrastructure that encroaches over the road reserve or if suspended from ropes, wires, etc from any building or other infrastructure, written agreement must be obtained from the owner of the building or infrastructure.
Council Requirements
Council allows for election signage within local road reserves in accordance with its Local Law “Activities on Thoroughfares and Trading in Thoroughfares and Public Places 2001”. Section 3.6 of that Local Law states as follows:
3.6 Conditions on election sign
If the local government approves an application for a permit for the erection or placement of an election sign on a thoroughfare, the application is to be taken to be approved subject to the sign
- being erected at least 30m from any intersection;
- being free standing and not being affixed to any existing sign, post, power or light pole, or similar structure;
- being placed so as not to obstruct or impede the reasonable use of a thoroughfare, or access to a place by any person;
- being placed so as not to obstruct or impede the vision of a driver of a vehicle entering or leaving a thoroughfare or crossing;
- being maintained in good condition;
- not being erected until the election to which it relates has been officially announced;
- being removed within 24 hours of the close of polls on voting day;
- not being placed within 100m of any works on the thoroughfare;
- being securely installed;
- not being an illuminated sign;
- not incorporating reflective or fluorescent materials; and
- not displaying only part of a message which is to be read with other separate signs in order to obtain the whole message
If an election sign is fixed to the road reserve side of a property boundary fence, then it is deemed to be within the road reserve. Such signage would also be non-compliant with c3.6(b) above as any electoral signage must be free standing. There is election signage already located on road reserves throughout the Shire and some of it would not comply with the Local Law provisions as outlined above.
For further information please contact Shire officers on 9576 4600 or email chatter@chittering.wa.gov.au. Alternatively, the Shire’s Local Planning Policy No 5 - Signage and Activities on Thoroughfares and Trading in Thoroughfares and Public Places Local Law is available online.