The final results in the City of Wollongong's Mayoral Election are in and Labor's Tania Brown has been elected.
The new Lord Mayor received 61.23% of votes in the final count.
Yesterday the NSW Electoral Commission published the total number of votes for the five mayoral candidates:
- Labor's Tania Brown – 58,936 votes
- The Greens' Jess Whittaker – 37,311 votes
- Independent Ryan Morris – 26,908 votes
- Independent Andrew Anthony – 17,263 votes
- Independent Suzanne de Vive – 5,751 votes
Want to know more about Wollongong's new Lord Mayor?
Journalist Jeremy Lasek spoke to Tania Brown in her first media interview on the Sunday after voting day. Read more here.
Right at the start of the council election campaign in July, Tania answered questions about her plans for the city, listing her top priorities as: housing, investing in our suburbs (including more footpaths), jobs and investment, and protecting our environment. Read more here.
And last week, Flame editor Genevieve Swart spoke to Tania after a trip through Wollongong Library's newspaper archives revealed a local history of women, politics and the media, tracing the changes from a time of the ‘shrieking sisterhood’ to the age of online trolls. With the first woman stepping into the city's top job, it’s worth asking, ‘How far have we come?’ Read more here.