RICHMOND VALLEY ELECTION: Mustow the go for mayor, Group B way ahead in the count

Susanna Freymark

With more than 11,000 out of 16,469 votes counted in Richmond Valley, Robert Mustow has emerged as a clear winner with a whopping 73.6% of those votes. This is the current count of first preference votes only.

His contender Robert Hayes has 26.99% of the votes counted.

The mayoral votes are counted first.

The councillor positions are of course, still being counted and with almost 4,000 of votes counted, the percentages are sitting at:

Group B 57.15%

Robert Mustow, Steve Morrissey, Sandra Humphrys, Sam Cornish, Debra McGillan

Group E 13.68%

Patrick Deegan, Michele Yates Jacob Dhnaram

Group D  10.27%

Robert Hayes, Daniel Simpson, Louise Wicks

Group A 10.02%

Jill Lyons, Peter Neilsen, Ted Hoddinott

Group C 7.07%

Trudy Lamont,  Neale Genge, Portia Walker-Fernando

Robyn Kapeen is ungrouped and sits at 1.46%