6:00pm – Polls have just closed in Newcastle’s lord mayoral by-election, as well as in three other council by-elections in Marrickville and the Blue Mountains. I’ll mostly be covering the results from the City of Newcastle this evening. The lord mayoralty of Newcastle was held by Jeff McCloy from the 2012 council election until he resigned earlier this year after he was exposed as giving donations to a number of Liberal candidates despite being a property developer, prior to winning the mayoralty.
You can also check out the Tally Room guide to this by-election, which includes analysis of the 2012 election result and the history of Newcastle’s lord mayoralty.
McCloy won the lord mayoralty in 2012 with 43% of the primary vote, with Labor coming second with 28%. The main candidates are considered to be Labor’s Nuatali Nelmes, and independent candidate Brad Luke, who was elected to Newcastle City Council in 2012 as a Liberal councillor.
Results will be coming in tonight from 47 polling places, and I will be attempting to match results to 2012 booth results to produce a predicted final result. However we will not be experiencing a two-candidate-preferred count tonight, so the projections will only produce estimates of the final primary vote.
City of Newcastle lord mayoral by-election results
| Candidate |
Party |
Votes |
% |
Swing |
Projected % |
| Aaron Buman |
Independent |
0 |
0.00 |
0 |
0.00 |
| David Chapman |
Independent |
0 |
0.00 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Rod Holding |
Independent |
0 |
0.00 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Brad Luke |
Independent |
0 |
0.00 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Nuatali Nelmes |
Labor |
0 |
0.00 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Joe Ferguson |
Australia First |
0 |
0.00 |
0 |
0.00 |
| Therese Doyle |
Greens |
0 |
0.00 |
0 |
0.00 |
