Toowoomba Regional Council - Mayor voting results ...
Mayoral candidates:
1. MANNERS, FP. "Snow" - 7,951 (11.39%)
2. JONES, Ian - 11,776 (16.87%)
3. TAYLOR, Peter - 50,078 (71.74%)
Electors at Close of Roll: 98,313
Votes counted:
Total Formal Votes
69,805
Total Informal
1,483
Total Votes
71,288
Booths reporting - 60 out of 60.
Taylor has won a stunning victory - taking both rural and city votes with the outgoing Mayor's nominee Jones pushed into second place and Manners adrift in third.
Is this an indication of today's Councillor results with the entire incumbent Council to be tossed out?
See - Toowoomba Regional Council - Mayoral results.
In Brisbane, Campbell 'Can Do' Newman has won with Greg Rowell conceding defeat.
On the Gold Coast, Ron Clarke is ahead by a nose.
In Dalby, Ray Brown is well ahead of Geisel and O'Shea ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 8:05 AM
8 Comments:
I have to wonder at the thinking capicity of the Toowoomba and Regional voting public. In fact do they have the ability to think, to investigate, to plan at all? What was it, every second box ticked? first top ten,? bottom ten?
Toowoomba had a golden opportunity presented to them for someone who had leadersip, honesty, ability, tenacity,ready to communicate with the public and after all these years, it would have been nice to see someone with a bit of class instead of ass as we have suffered the last few years. I'm so sorry Snow. Toowoomba, you stuffed up and you now have to cop it. Good luck-I'm not staying around here.
8:16 PM, March 15, 2008
Taylor should publicly declare that there will be no Eliot Spitzer moments in the next 4 years.
8:47 PM, March 15, 2008
Well done Taylor. Commiserations to Jones and Manners
9:26 PM, March 15, 2008
ABC News:
Newman wins Brisbane election landslide
15 March 2008
Council election site Brisbane's Liberal Lord Mayor Campbell Newman has secured a stunning win in today's local government election in south-east Queensland.
In a very strong result to Cr Newman, there has been a 13.5 per cent swing to the Liberal Party with more than 65 per cent of the vote for Lord Mayor at 8pm AEST.
Cr Newman has thanked voters for their support.
"I'm really heartened by this tremendous show of support from the people of Brisbane to actually myself as Lord Mayor," he said.
"I thank them for that and I really do pledge, whatever the result tonight in the wards, that I'll get on with delivering on my commitments as best as I can."
ABC election analyst Antony Green says the Liberal Party will also secure a council majority, predicting an 18 ward win.
"It may not be that comprehensive a victory, but at this stage it looks like the Liberals will win enough wards to give Campbell Newman a majority," Mr Green said.
"If the Liberals don't win a majority, it will be by only a bee's knee."
Meanwhile, sitting Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale has had a clear victory, winning 81 per cent of the vote, with 56 out of 64 booths counted.
South of Brisbane, Logan City councillor Pam Parker is in a winning position on 59 per cent, with about half of the booths counted.
The votes have been tallied in more than half the booths in Redland City, leaving Melva Hobson on 59 per cent and Paul Clauson on 41 per cent.
It is a closer contest in the new Moreton Bay Regional Council, but outgoing Redcliffe mayor Allan Sutherland looks to have taken a strong lead ahead of the former Caboolture Mayor Joy Leishman.
On the Gold Coast, incumbent mayor Ron Clarke has just under 35 per cent of the vote with more than 79,000 votes counted at 8pm AEST.
Fellow councillor Rob Molhoek has just over 26 per cent, while the Liberals Tom Tate has just over 27 per cent.
9:41 PM, March 15, 2008
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10:03 PM, March 15, 2008
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This has to be a dream . Concerned Ratepayer (a.k.a Snow) and W.F Blog (a.k.a Snow) you will have to invent another conspiracy theory about the ballot boxes being stuffed with votes for Taylor and the Returning officer was a Labor Party Plant
10:09 PM, March 15, 2008
4350water blog does not = Snow. Not sure how many times that point needs to be made.
The voters have spoken and Taylor is the man chosen to lead the Toowoomba Regional Council. He needs to work with the Councillors elected today (to be announced tomorrow) and put the past divisions behind the Council.
If it takes a clean sweep of the Council to achieve this, so be it.
The departure of the outgoing Mayor is a breath of fresh air for Toowoomba. It's been a long time coming!
10:15 PM, March 15, 2008
Sunday Mail:
Peter Taylor first mayor of Toowoomba super council
16 March 2008
The first and last mayor of Jondaryan Shire, Peter Taylor, has spent his final day in the top job opening the 100th Oakey Show.
Queensland Governor Quentin Bryce joined Cr Taylor at the country show, about 150km west of Brisbane, yesterday morning.
Jondaryan Shire is one of eight councils merging to form the Toowoomba Regional Council.
Mr Taylor, who served 20 years on Jondaryan council and was its first mayor, has been elected first regional mayor with over 70 per cent of the vote.
The only thing he and other mayoral aspirants Snow Manners and Ian Jones agreed on was that there were big changes in store.
Outside the amalgamation of the Torres Strait Island regions, the new division represents Queensland's largest council merger.
The new council will span almost 13,000sq km, and Mr Taylor said the merge was an "extraordinary change" for Toowoomba.
With water supply a major issue for the new council, former Toowoomba councillor Mr Manners maintained throughout his campaign that Toowoomba should not be linked to a water grid, instead promoting a series of bores and dams.
Mr Jones, the former Clifton mayor, said his campaign had focused on increasing his city profile.
"I've been encouraged by the fact that now when I walk down the main street of Toowoomba, people say, 'Hi, Ian," he said.
12:57 PM, March 16, 2008
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