See main article: Results of the 2021 New South Wales local elections. This is a list of results for the 2021 New South Wales local elections in the Murray region, including the Far West.[1] [2] [3] [4]
| Country: | New South Wales |
| Election Name: | 2021 Albury City Council election |
| Election Date: | 4 December 2021 |
| Previous Year: | 2016 |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Vote Type: | First preference |
| Majority Seats: | 5 |
| Seats For Election: | All 9 seats on Albury City Council |
| Image1: | IND |
| Leader1: | N/A |
| Party1: | Independents |
| Last Election1: | 7 seats |
| Seats Before1: | 7 |
| Seats1: | 7 |
| Popular Vote1: | 22,586 |
| Percentage1: | 79.7% |
| Swing1: | 3.1 |
| Leader2: | Ashley Edwards |
| Party2: | Greens |
| Last Election2: | 1 seat |
| Seats Before2: | 1 |
| Seats2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 3,074 |
| Percentage2: | 10.8% |
| Swing2: | 1.4 |
| Leader3: | Darren Cameron |
| Party3: | Labor |
| Last Election3: | 1 seat |
| Seats Before3: | 1 |
| Seats3: | 1 |
| Popular Vote3: | 2,714 |
| Percentage3: | 9.5% |
| Swing3: | 0.5 |
| Largest party | |
| Posttitle: | Subsequent largest party |
Albury City Council is composed of composed of nine councillors elected proportionally to a single ward. At the 2016 election, independents and local groups won 76.61% of the vote.[5]
The Albury Citizens and Ratepayers Movement, which had 1.20% of the vote in 2016 and previously had an elected councillor, disbanded in 2019.
Greens councillor Amanda Cohn did not seek re-election but remained on the party's ticket for the election.[6]
| Country: | New South Wales |
| Election Name: | 2021 Broken Hill City Council election |
| Election Date: | 4 December 2021 |
| Previous Year: | 2016 |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Vote Type: | First preference |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Majority Seats: | 6 |
| Seats For Election: | All 9 seats on Broken Hill City Council |
| Image1: | BBH |
| Leader1: | Tom Kennedy |
| Party1: | FABBH |
| Party1 Name: | no |
| Last Election1: | Did not exist |
| Seats Before1: | 2 |
| Seats1: | 5 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 5,237 |
| Percentage1: | 50.4% |
| Swing1: | 50.4 |
| Leader2: | Dave Gallagher |
| Party2: | TBH |
| Party2 Name: | no |
| Last Election2: | 2 seats |
| Seats Before2: | 3 |
| Seats2: | 2 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 2,549 |
| Percentage2: | 24.5% |
| Swing2: | 1.8 |
| Leader3: | Darriea Turley |
| Party3: | Labor |
| Last Election3: | 4 seats |
| Seats Before3: | 4 |
| Seats3: | 2 |
| Seat Change3: | 2 |
| Popular Vote3: | 2,263 |
| Percentage3: | 21.8% |
| Swing3: | 16.9 |
| Largest party | |
| Posttitle: | Subsequent largest party |
Broken Hill City Council is composed of nine councillors elected proportionally to a single ward, as well as a directly-elected mayor. At the 2016 election, Labor won a plurality with four councillors, along with Darriea Turley elected mayor.[7]
Incumbent independent councillor Tom Kennedy formed the "For A Better Broken Hill" (FABBH) group for the election, while another independent councillor − Ron Page − joined Dave Gallagher's "Team Broken Hill" group.
The Greens, who had 4.97% of the vote in 2016, did not recontest. However, Ghislaine 'Gigi' Barbe, who ran fourth on the Greens ticket in 2016, ran as an independent.[7]
FABBH won a majority in a landslide victory, electing all six of its candidates, including Kennedy being elected mayor.[8]
| Elected councillor | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick Bourke | Independent (Group A) | |||
| David Fahey | Independent (Group A) | |||
| Andrew Kennedy | Independent (Group C) | |||
| Aaron Nicholls | Independent (Group E) | |||
| Shaun Whitechurch | Independent (Group D) | |||
| Sally Hughes | Independent (Group B) | |||
| David Longley | Independent | |||
| Rowena Black | Independent | |||
| Gail Law | Independent | |||
| Votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | 4,037 | 100.0 | 9 | |||||
| Formal votes | 4,037 | 95.60 | ||||||
| Informal votes | 186 | 4.40 | ||||||
| Total | 4,223 | 100.00 | 9 | |||||