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Mayor & councillors

Mayor & councillors

Moree Plains is an undivided (single-ward) council: its nine councillors are elected proportionally across the whole local government area rather than by ward. The councillors elect the Mayor and Deputy Mayor from among themselves (Moree Plains does not have a popularly elected mayor). Below is who currently holds office, with links to the council's official profiles page and the September 2024 election results.

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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Mayor
Cr Susannah Pearse (Independent)Elected Mayor by the councillors on 15 October 2024 (6–3 vote over fellow councillors Kelly James and Kerry Cassells) for a two-year mayoral term. Previously served as Deputy Mayor.
Deputy Mayor
Cr Wayne Tighe (Independent)Elected Deputy Mayor by the councillors on 15 October 2024 (5–4 vote over Cr Peter Mailler).
Councillors
9 total — undivided (single ward, proportional representation)
How the Mayor is chosen
Elected by the councillors (not by popular vote)The mayoral and deputy mayoral terms run for two years within the four-year council term, so this may have been re-decided since October 2024 — check the council's official page.

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. Every Moree Plains councillor was elected as an independent at the September 2024 election. The council's own site and the NSW Electoral Commission's results pages (pastvtr.elections.nsw.gov.au) block automated access, so this was cross-checked via secondary press coverage (Moree Online News, New England Times) and Wikipedia rather than fetched directly — confirm current affiliations on the NSWEC link below. A council's makeup can change between elections through casual vacancies, 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.