With 68% of the vote counted, the make-up of the next Mount Isa Council is looking clearer though the mayoral contest remains too close to call.
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Five of the six current councillors are now favourites to retain their seats on council though its not looking good for long-term councillor Jean Ferris in eighth place.
After several days in which the count stayed at 17%, Peta MacRae is the big winner in the latest results storming up from seventh to fifth with Cr George Fortune just behind her.
That means James Bambrick from the Mount Isa Community Team has slipped out of the reckoning some 70 votes behind in seventh.
Independent Kim Coghlan looks set to return to council after a four year absence and she is in a race with Cr Mick Tully to top the poll with deputy mayor Phil Barwick a hundred votes further back in third.
In the mayoral race another three percent has been counted (now 68.5%) and Danielle Slade's lead has narrowed slightly over mayor Joyce McCulloch.
With 7687 votes counted Ms Slade leads by 171 votes, down from 190 votes at the last addition of votes.
Ms Slade has 3329 votes (44.34%), Cr McCulloch has 3158 (42.06%) and David Fletcher has 1121 votes (13.60%) with 179 votes informal (2.33%)..
Councillor poll:
Kim Coghlan 3426
Mick Tully 3424
Phil Barwick 3327
Paul Stretton 3274
Peta Macrae 3162
George Fortune 3157
James Bambrick 3024
Jean Ferris 2884
Bernard Gillic 2688
Gary Abel 2484
Lesley-Ann Peterson 2405
Thomas Heffernan 2243
Natasha Hydon 2082
Stephanie King 1908
Robyn Ferrier 1507
Jennifer French 1441
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Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
