Nominations for Benalla Rural City Councillor elections closed on Tuesday, September 17, and a field of 15 candidates has been confirmed.
This is the order they have been confirmed by the Victorian Electoral Commission.
- Puna Hewa Gunaratne
- Bernie Hearn
- Philip Leo Murphy
- Mark Jones
- Peter Davis
- Nathan Tolliday
- Jillian Merkel
- Annette Borradale
- Vincent Michael Branigan
- Justin R King
- Suzie Pearce
- Philip Hauptmann
- Gail O’Brien
- David George Blore
- Kevin Smith
The candidates will battle it out to take one of the seven seats on council.
The community should receive their voting packs in the mail in the next few weeks.
The Ensign has spoken to, or been given statements from, several of the candidates. Click their highlighted names in the above list if you would like to find out more.
We will reach out to the other candidates and if they wish to share their plans with the community, we will publish those in the coming weeks.
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