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Liverpool City Council in south-west Sydney will head to the polls amid confusion about a possible deferred election. The election is not being conducted by the NSWEC; instead, a private company known as the Australian Election Company.
2021 election
At the last election in 2021, the Liberals emerged as the largest party with five seats (including the directly-elected mayoral position, won by Ned Mannoun). Labor won four seats, and Liverpool Community Independent Team (LCIT) won two.
The seat totals were the same in both North Ward and South Ward.
Elected councillors
North | South |
Mel Goodman (LIB) | Richard Ammoun (LIB) |
Mazhar Hadid (LIB) | Betty Green (ALP) |
Nathan Hagarty (ALP) | Charishma Kaliyanda (ALP) |
Peter Harle (LCIT) | Fiona Macnaught (LIB) |
Ali Karnib (ALP) | Karress Rhodes (LCIT) |
Party defections
On 7 April 2022, Rhodes left the Liverpool Community Independent Team to sit as an indepenent. She wrote:
"I wish to advise my resignation from the (LCIT) Political party, known as the Liverpool Community Independents Team.
My resignation, made necessary by LCIT's intended changes to their constitution, which will no longer make it possible for me to maintain my integrity as an independent Councillor if I were to remain a member.
I hereby resign to enable myself to continue to best serve the people of Liverpool as promised since first elected in 2016 as a truly Independent Councillor who will always perform my duties in a respectful and professional manner without fear or favour and always, only in the best interest of Liverpool.
I assure the people of Liverpool that I will continue to serve them as promised and without interruption as their truly Independent Councillor and the current serving Deputy Mayor of Liverpool City Council.
I advise that my contact details remain the same as published on the Liverpool City Council website which will no longer reference me as a current member of the LCIT party.
I wish the LCIT Political party well in their future Political directions."
Candidates
A number of candidates from different parties were announced by the NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) before the election was deferred.
Former Liberal councillor Peter Ristevski joined Our Local Community in June, while the Libertarian Party had named both its lead ward candidates (although apparently they were not yet registered with the NSWEC). The Australian Christians also had one candidate named.
Two Labor councillors − Nathan Hagarty and Charishma Kaliyanda − were elected to the NSW Parliament in 2023 and would not be recontesting the local elections.
Asterisks (*) indicate an incumbent councillor, even if they are not contesting their current ward.
Mayor
Ned Mannoun (Liberal)*
Betty Green (Labor)
Peter Ristevski (Our Local Community)
North Ward
Richard Ammoun (Liberal)*
Mathew Harte (Liberal)
Francis Mawule (Labor)
Mirfat Ibrahim (Labor)
Samir Karnib (Labor)
Ethan Monaghan (Labor)
Christopher Stanley (Labor)
Gemma Noiosi (Libertarian)
Tony Estephen (Independent)
Christopher Sparrow (Independent)
South Ward
Ned Mannoun (Liberal)*
Fiona Macnaught (Liberal)*
Emmanuel Adjei (Liberal)
Betty Green (Labor)
Alaa Ahmad (Labor)
Mohan Bhatt (Labor)
Ethan Monaghan (Labor)
Peter Ristevski (Our Local Community)
Victor Tey (Libertarian)
Owen Butt (Christians)
Dhurgham Hazim Hasan Al-Sulaimawi (Independent)
Tarkan Fahri (Independent)
Carla Filipakis (Independent)
Robert Ahmet Kadir (Independent)