2021 NSW Local Government elections: Political Participants Bulletin No.8
Bulletin No. 8
Issued 27 May 2021
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1. Candidate information webinars
If you attended the webinar held on Tuesday, 11 May and have not completed our short online survey about the webinar, please do so as your feedback is valuable for future planning.
The remaining webinars will be conducted on:
11am, Thursday 10 June – General information
6pm, Tuesday 15 June – General information (repeated)
2pm, Thursday 1 July – Nominations
11am, Tuesday 27 July – Registration of Electoral material (also known as how-to-vote material)
11am, Monday 9 August – iVote explained
11am, Thursday 19 August – Early voting and election day voting
6pm, Tuesday 31 August – Candidate workers, scrutineers, counting and results
Check our candidate information webinars page for more information, including past webinars and registering your attendance for future webinars.
2. Reminder of information requested of registered parties in the previous bulletin No.7
In the previous bulletin 'Registered Political Parties', were asked to provide certain details to the NSW Electoral Commission over the coming weeks. Please refer to Bulletin 7 for further details on the information requested.
The table below summarises the information requested of Registered Political Parties.
The information can be emailed to candidates@elections.nsw.gov.au.
3. Nomination Online Management System overview
The NSW Electoral Commission has developed a nomination online management system (NOMS) to be used at the 2021 Local Government elections.
The system allows parties, groups and independent candidates to do the following online:
complete and lodge nomination forms
create a group on the ballot paper
pay the relevant nomination deposit.
An overview of the nomination online management system will be provided in the candidate information webinar to be held on Thursday, 1 July 2021.
Paper nominations will also be available upon request by calling the candidate helpdesk from Monday, 28 June 2021.
For further information, please call the candidate helpdesk on 1300 022 011.
4. Non-client councils
Administration of 2021 Local Government elections
Fairfield City and Penrith City councils have engaged an electoral services provider to administer their 2021 elections. Information in Local Government Elections bulletins about registration for electoral funding purposes, campaign finance and disclosure rules administered by the NSW Electoral Commission still applies, however, you will need to contact those councils about the administration of nominations, electoral material, postal votes etc. for those elections.