Thursday, October 10, 2024

Issue:

Mackay and Whitsunday Life

Candidate Order Announced

This year’s 2024 order of candidates on Election Ballot Paper was determined earlier this week on Tuesday 8 October at Returning Officer Whitsunday in Whitsunday Shopping Centre.

The Electoral Commission Queensland (ECQ) had the 5 candidates’ names and parties on separate pieces of paper, all the same size. Placed them into blank envelopes also the same size.

They were then placed in a Ballot Box, shaken, mixed up and drawn blindly.

The results:

   1. Bauke Hovinga - Labor
   2. Amanda Camm - LNP
   3. Elena Quirk - Greens
   4. Julie Hall - One Nation
   5. Peter Atchison - Family First

Julie Hall from One Nation party was in attendance on the day.

Election Day is Saturday 26 October and voting is compulsory.

Can’t vote on Election Day? Below are early voting centre locations.

Early voting centre locations:

Proserpine
Whitsunday Masonic Lodge, 29 Chapman Stree

Cannonvale
Whitsunday Shopping Centre, Shop 15, 226 Shute Harbour Road

14 – 25 October
Monday - Friday 8am-6pm


1 One Nation candidate for Whitsunday Julie Hall attended the Ballot Draw on Tuesday

Photo Credit: Daniel Heggie

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