Voting has now closed across the state for the 2024 NSW Local Government elections.
Acting NSW Electoral Commissioner, Dr Matthew Phillips said counting would begin as soon as polling places closed at 6pm, with results to be progressively published on the NSW Electoral Commission’s website.
“To ensure the health and safety of staff and scrutineers, counting will conclude by 10pm on election night,” he said.
No counting will be conducted on Sunday, 15 September, with other critical election operations to take place on Sunday, including the delivery of ballot papers and other materials to the Commission’s centralised count centres.
“Our staff will have a very long day today after starting early and are about to start a long night of counting. In line with our work health and safety principles, staff will get a well-deserved break tomorrow before counting resumes on Monday,” said Dr Phillips.
Counting will then proceed in line with legislative requirements and the published count timeline.
All count results (Initial counts, Check counts, and Distribution of preferences) will be published as soon as they are available.
The count cannot be concluded until all postal votes have been returned to the Electoral Commissioner. The deadline for return of completed postal votes is 6pm on Friday, 27 September 2024.
When all the votes have been counted, the official announcement of the elections result will be declared in writing. Results will be declared between 1 and 3 October 2024.
The date of the declaration varies from council to council. The declaration will be displayed at the office of the relevant council and the final election result will be available at elections.nsw.gov.au.
