Local Council Elections: Council Candidates
The Electoral Commission closed nominations for the Local Government elections at noon on Wednesday 14th August and ballots were held at each Electoral Office on Thursday to determine which order candidates will appear on the ballot paper.
The Hills Shire Council is divided into wards and residents can ONLY vote in their wards on election day, Saturday, September 14th. You can find out which Ward you are in on the NSW Electoral Commission website at elections.nsw.gov.au
The following are the candidates for each Hills Shire Ward Ward listed in the order they will appear on the Ballot paper. There are 34 candidates vying for 12 seats in the Hills Shire Council election.
While Labor and Liberal candidates will have candidates in all 4 wards, The Greens are cotesting 3 wards and an Independent candidate, Seema Raghav, will be standing on environmental issues in West Ward. The List of Hills Council candidates is below.
NORTH WARD CANDIDATES: 3 councillors to be elected. * Denotes sitting councillor. 2 former councillors are also running.
• GROUP A Labor: Dilvan Bircan, Bassam Sheikh and Kaitlyn Farquhar
• GROUP B The Greens: *Mila Kasby, Vida Shahamat and Rebecca Oliveira
• GROUP C Liberal: *Mitchell Blue, Jacob Jackson and Brooke Collins
CENTRAL WARD CANDIDATES: 3 councillors to be elected. * Denotes sitting councillor.
• GROUP A Liberal: *Reena Jethi, *Jerome Cox and Manjula Viswanath
• GROUP B Labor: Tina Cartwright, Gurdip Singh and Cheung Chai
• GROUP C The Greens: Danielle Packer, Samuel Hughes and Seyed Hosseinipour.
WEST WARD CANDIDATES: 3 councillors to be elected. * Denotes sitting councillor.
• GROUP A Labor: Immanuel Selvaraj, Sook Lee and Lachlan Newland
• GROUP B Liberal: *Frank De Masi, *Rosemarie Boneham and Trent Richmond.
• INDEPENDENT: Seema Raghav
EAST WARD CANDIDATES: 3 councillors to be elected. *Denotes sitting councillor. 2 former councillors are also running.
• GROUP A Labor: Evgeniya Grevtseva, Andrew Punch and Senthil Sundararajan
• GROUP B The Greens: Suzannah McDonald, Catherine Woolnough, Tian Wong See
• GROUP C Liberal: Samuel Uno, Alan Haselden and Leo Wei.
Three councillors will be voted on to represent each ward at Hills Shire Council meaning 12 representatives on council plus the popularly elected Mayor. Interestingly none of the sitting Labor Councillors will be returning to contest their seats and four former Liberal councillors are hoping to return following a bitter preselection battle ahead of the 2021 election which saw them fail to be endorsed by Liberal State head office.
