Voting will close today at 6pm across the state for the 2024 NSW Local Government elections.
Sydney (Press Release, NSW Electoral Commission, 14 Sep 2024): Acting NSW Electoral Commissioner Dr Matthew Phillips said counting would begin as soon as polling places close, with results
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. Other critical election operations will take place on Sunday, including the delivery of ballot papers and other materials to our 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 election results 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
Election statistics, including pre-poll figures and postal votes applied for and returned are available on our website.
Read more information about the counting of ballot papers or get more information about counting and results from our counting and results webinar and counting votes explainer.
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