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Mayor & councillors

Mayor & councillors

Coolamon Shire is an undivided (at-large) council: its nine councillors are elected across the whole local government area by proportional representation, with no wards or divisions. The councillors elect the Mayor and Deputy Mayor from among themselves (Coolamon does not have a popularly elected mayor); the council matches the two terms, so both run for two years and the next mid-term election falls in October 2026. Council publishes a direct email address for every councillor, listed below.

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 David McCann OAM (Independent)Elected Mayor unopposed by the councillors at the first meeting of the new council on 17 October 2024, for a term running to the mid-term mayoral election in October 2026. First elected to the council in 2008.
Deputy Mayor
Cr Alan WhiteElected Deputy Mayor unopposed at the same meeting, 17 October 2024, on the same two-year term. First elected to the council in 2012.
Councillors
9 total — undivided (single ward, elected by proportional representation)
How the Mayor is chosen
Elected by the councillors (not by popular vote); 2-year termThe General Manager acts as Returning Officer under the Local Government (General) Regulation 2021.
Council meetings
Third Thursday of the month, 3.00pm, Council Chambers, 55 Cowabbie StreetMeetings are open to the public and live-streamed; agendas are prepared by the second Friday of the month. Anyone wanting to bring a matter before Council lodges the request with the General Manager by the second Wednesday.

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) — four of the nine were declared with an Independent (IND) group code; the NSWEC results for Matthew Higginson, Wayne Lewis, Kathy Maslin, Colin McKinnon and Alan White show no group code, so their affiliation is left blank here rather than guessed. 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.