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Mayor & councillors

Mayor & councillors

Blayney Shire is an undivided (at-large) council: its seven councillors are elected across the whole local government area by proportional representation, rather than by ward, so every councillor represents Blayney, Millthorpe, Carcoar and all the villages equally. The councillors elect the Mayor and Deputy Mayor from among themselves — Blayney does not have a popularly elected mayor. Council publishes a direct email address (and, for most councillors, a mobile number) for each councillor, along with the outside bodies each of them sits on. Ordinary meetings are usually held on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 6.00pm in the Blayney Shire Community Centre, 41 Church Street, and are live-streamed.

New to these terms? Read them in plain English
How the mayor is chosen
Either elected directly by voters, or chosen by the councillors.
Ward
A subdivision of a council area that elects its own councillors.
Local Government Area (LGA)
The official area a council governs.
NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC)
Runs council elections and publishes the official results.
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Who represents you

Mayor
Cr Bruce Reynolds (Independent)Elected Mayor by the councillors following the September 2024 election. Council representative on the Country Mayors Association, Central NSW Joint Organisation, the Association of Mining and Energy Related Councils, Central Tablelands Weeds Authority and the McPhillamys Gold Project Community Consultative Committee.
Deputy Mayor
Cr Rebecca ScottElected Deputy Mayor by the councillors. Chairs Council's Disability Inclusion Working Group and Financial Assistance Committee, and sits on the Western Region Planning Panel.
Councillors
7 total — undivided (single ward, elected by proportional representation)
How the Mayor is chosen
Elected by the councillors (not by popular vote)
Council meetings
Usually the fourth Tuesday of the month, 6.00pmHeld at the Blayney Shire Community Centre, 41 Church Street, Blayney, next to the Administration Centre. Business papers are published the Friday before; meetings are live-streamed and recorded. The public can address a meeting through the Public Forum with prior arrangement.

Your representatives

Want to raise something? Contacting your ward councillor or the mayor is one of the most direct ways to be heard between elections.

We list who's in office and link to their official profiles and the election results; we don't characterise anyone's politics. Party labels are those each councillor was elected under at the September 2024 election (NSW Electoral Commission) — the NSWEC declaration shows an Independent (IND) group code for Bruce Reynolds, Karl Hutchings, Craig Gosewisch and Iris Dorsett, while Rebecca Scott and John Newstead carry no group code, so their affiliation is left blank here rather than guessed. Cr Stephen Johnston was not among the seven declared elected in 2024: he filled a casual vacancy created by the resignation of Cr Michelle Pryse Jones in January 2025, through a countback of the 2024 ballot papers in February 2025, so there is no 2024 party label attached to his seat. Casual vacancies can change the makeup, so the council's official page has the most current list.

Sources — check it yourself

Figures are current as at the dates shown and may change — always confirm with the linked source. See the notice at the bottom of the page for full details and how to report a correction.