Elections

Before Voting

Election Day!

Counting the Votes

Members of Council

Before Voting

The clerk keeps a list of everyone who lives in the community. Only people who have lived in the community for six months can be on the list. A person must be on the list in order to vote.

Council decides when to have an election, but there must be at least one election every three years.

The clerk then puts up a poster telling everyone when the election will be held. The clerk has to give at least 28 days notice of the coming election.

In Walangeri Ngumpinku there are 4 wards who may elect Council members.

• 2 members to represent the Lingarra ward;

• 2 members to represent the Pigeon Hole ward;

• 5 members to represent the Yarralin ward; and

• 1 member to represent the Yinguwinarri ward,

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Election Day!

The clerk can ask people to help with the election, they are called Polling Officials.

The week before elections, the clerk may organize mobile polling booths.

The box where all the votes are placed is be checked to make sure its empty, then its locked tight so no one can try and cheat.

The polling place shall remain open for as long as the clerk necessary. Everyone who wants to vote comes along and tells the clerk or official their name. Their name is then crossed off the election list.

The voter is given a ballot token which they can drop into a secure container for the person they want to vote for. A picture of each candidate, along with their name clearly indicated, so the voter feels confident of whom they are voting.

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Counting the Vote

After the polling place closes the clerk starts to count the votes. Its very important that the clerk have someone else present to make sure no one cheats, so each ward may send a scrutineer to make sure everything is done properly.

Once the counting has finished the clerk must sign a document stating:

• Names of officials
  
• Names of scrutineers
  
• Number of votes
  
• Number of invalid votes (those that people couldn't understand)
  
• Number of postal votes

The clerk then goes and puts up a notice saying who won the election.

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Members of Council

The Council consists of 10 members. Each ward elects people to represent them in Council matters.

• 2 members to represent the Lingarra ward;

• 2 members to represent the Pigeon Hole ward;

• 5 members to represent the Yarralin ward; and

• 1 member to represent the Yinguwinarri ward,

To view the Elected Members click here.

The Council will choose a President and Vice President from among the 10 elected members at the first meeting after elections.

You need to have lived in the community for more than six months and be elected by the community to be a member of Council.

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