City of Cockburn 30.38%
Town of East Fremantle 41.12%
City of Kwinana 46.03%
City of South Perth 37.57%
Town of Victoria Park 29.76%
Excitement must be building in Kwinana, now they're getting so close. Just a gentle reminder not to take the foot off the pedal until they have something like 53% - to make sure they aren't undone by informal/invalid votes.
Votes still needed for 50% (but remember need to add a bit for informal/invalid votes):
City of Cockburn 12,145
Town of East Fremantle 461
City of Kwinana 724
City of South Perth 3,330
Town of Victoria Park 4,075
If the South Perth "no" vote gets up, what happens to Wilson? If the Kwinana "no" vote gets up, does the bit of Cockburn that is going to Melville via boundary change still proceed?
ReplyDeleteIf a binding 'no' vote is achieved, Wilson would be left 'high and dry' and would have to be dealt with by a further boundary adjustment proposal - either to put it into Victoria Park or Canning/Gosnells.
ReplyDeleteThe same does not apply, however, to the area of Cockburn going to Melville as that transfer is achieved by the Melville 'boundary adjustment'. A binding 'no' vote has no effect.
A binding 'no' vote in East Fremantle, however, would leave both Bicton/Palmyra and the northern part of Cockburn without a local government and each would have to be dealt with by boundary adjustment. My guess, given the Government's apparent antipathy towards Cockburn and the strong influence of Melville (which I believe would dearly love to get rid of Bicton/Palmyra) on the process so far that Bicton/Palmyra cold go to East Fremantle and northern Cockburn to Fremantle.
We shall see, but my expectation is that the Government would expedite this and the LGAB would not allow the 6 week public submission period on the grounds that these changes are either minor or have already been considered in their previous deliberations.