General
Frontrunners emerge as vote counting for 17 candidates in Rockhampton by-election continues
A councillor who has been in local government for 16 years is among three frontrunners to become Rockhampton’s new mayor as voting continues from a record-breaking field of 17 candidates.
Key points:
- About 80 per cent of votes have been counted in the Rockhampton mayoral by-election
- Councillor Tony Williams is in the lead, but does not want to claim victory prematurely
- March 2020 election runner-up Chris ‘Pineapple’ Hooper is happy with the results so far
Fifty five thousand central Queenslanders were sent to the polls on Saturday after the shock resignation of Margaret Strelow in November.
About 80 per cent of ballot papers have been tallied in the unofficial preliminary count.
Councillor Tony Williams is in the lead with about 25 per cent of…
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