Voting in the Local Election

It is really easy and it is all about choices - your choices.

So just imagine there are 3 candidates

You can:

1. Vote for just 1 candidate — just put a number 1 next to the name of that candidate.
2. Vote for some — just put a 1 next to the name of the candidate you like best and a 2 next to your second choice.
3. Vote for all — put a 1 in the box for the candidate you like best and then a 2 for your second choice and a 3 for your third choice. If there are more candidates, you just keep numbering if you want to.

For more information please visit the Optional Preferential Voting page of the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries website.

Councillors represent each of the four wards of Mandurah. At the 2023 Ordinary Election, you will be voting for a nominated candidate from your ward.

Ward maps are available for your information on City of Mandurah website and the boundaries of each ward within the Mandurah District.

The next Ordinary Local Government Election will be held on Saturday 21 October 2023.

Voting packs will be distributed by the Western Australian Electoral Commission approx. two to three weeks prior to the election.  Your completed vote can be either:

Posted: votes must be mailed in and reach the WAEC before the election to ensure they are counted.

Hand delivered: drop it into the secure ballot box at City’s Administration Building, 3 Peel Street, Mandurah  before 4.10pm on Friday prior to the election day;

Election Day: Electors can drop off their completed voting package at the Mandurah Seniors and Community Centre, 41 Ormsby Terrace, Mandurah between the hours of 8am and 6pm. 

Misplaced or lost packages can also be reissued prior to the Election at the Administration building between the hours of 8.30am and 4.00pm, and on Election Day at the Mandurah Seniors and Community Centre. Voting closes at 6pm.

If you do not receive a voting package or if you have misplaced it you may:

1. Visit the City’s Administration building between 8:30am and 4:00pm and we will reissue your voting package; or
2. Vote in person on Election Day at the Mandurah Seniors and Community Centre, 41 Ormsby Terrace, Mandurah between 8.00am and 6.00pm.

Yes, the City of Mandurah Mayor is voted in by the electors. The next mayoral election year is 2025.

If your address is in Mandurah, contact the WAEC to update your enrolment details.

Update your enrolment details

If you are eligible to be on the Owner and Occupiers Roll please contact City of Mandurah’s Governance Services on 9550 3735, or email elections@mandurah.wa.gov.au to ensure that your eligibility can be considered.

Yes, provided you enrol with the City of Mandurah by submitting an enrolment eligibility claim form.

Download Enrolment Eligibility Claim - Owner or Co-Owner 
Download Enrolment Eligibility Claim - Occupier or Co-Occupier 

Whether a church or charity can nominate an elector depends on whether or not the property is rateable. Only the owners or occupiers of rateable property may enrol to vote. If the owner is a body corporate that owns rateable property, then the body corporate may nominate up to two persons to enrol on its behalf.

For example, if a church owns four properties, and only one of these properties is rateable, then the church may nominate up to two persons to enrol on its behalf, and these two persons may vote only in the Ward where the rateable property is situated. 

If you enrol as an owner of rateable property (this includes nominees of a body corporate which owns property) then your enrolment remains valid for as long as you continue to own the property.

If you enrol as an occupier of rateable property then your enrolment remains valid for two ordinary elections. If your enrolment was lodged too late for an election, then it remains valid for a period which covers three elections, although you may not vote in the first election.

All residents in a local government district who are enrolled on the State Electoral Roll are automatically enrolled on the corresponding local government roll.

Electors are encouraged to check their enrolment on the State electoral roll prior to the enrolment closure date at www.elections.wa.gov.au/OnlineEnrolmentSystem.

People who own or occupy property within a local government district, can apply to their local government to be included on the roll as an owner/occupier, as long as they are eligible electors. A body corporate may apply to have up to two eligible electors to be included on the owner/occupier roll.

If a person lives within one local district or ward, and owns or occupies property in a different district or ward, they may be entitled to a vote in both areas, provided they are enrolled for those addresses.

You are a non-resident occupier if:

• You live outside of the Ward of a rateable property;
• Have had continuous occupation of that property (for at least 3 months - can prove through lease, tenancy agreement etc…) within Mandurah; and
• Appear on the State or Commonwealth Roll for an address outside of the Ward. 

If a corporation owns or occupies rateable property within the City of Mandurah, then they may nominate two persons to represent the body corporate. If the corporation owns properties in more than one ward, then the same representatives must be nominated for all properties.

To nominate representatives to enrol, please complete the Enrolment Eligibility Claim - Nomination by Group of Owners or Occupiers form. Each nominee must then complete an Enrolment Eligibility Claim - Owner or Co-Owner and/or Enrolment Eligibility Claim - Occupier or Co-Occupier form. The forms can be submitted together to the City of Mandurah for consideration and approval prior to the “Owner and Occupier Roll” deadline.

If you believe you are eligible to be a non-resident occupier, a joint owner / occupier or part of a corporation, please complete an Enrolment Eligibility Claim - Owner or Co-Owner and/or Enrolment Eligibility Claim - Occupier or Co-Occupier form and send in to the City of Mandurah to be assessed for approval on the “Owner and Occupier Roll”.