Election Information
Local governments are elected for a fixed four-year term, and elections must be held every fourth year on the last Saturday in March, unless the Governor approves an alternative date. The 2008 Local Government Elections took place on Saturday 15th March 2008.
View results of the entire 2008 Queensland Local Government Election or just the results of the Charters Towers Regional Council Election.
You can register to vote, check your enrolment details and enrolment district or update your details at any time by visiting the Electoral Commission of Queensland website.
Electoral Commission of Queensland Website
Voting is your chance to make your mark, to choose your Member of Parliament and local government representative, and have your say in how we are governed.
In Queensland, voting is compulsory for Federal, State and Local Government Elections. Before you can vote, your name must be on the electoral roll. If you are eligible to enrol to vote, you must enrol, or you could be fined.
You are eligible to enrol to vote if:
- you have turned 17 (although you will not be able to vote until you are18 years of age);
- you are an Australian citizen;
you have lived at your address for at least one month.
British subjects, who are not Australian citizens, are eligible to enrol for Federal, Queensland State and local government elections if they were on a Commonwealth of Australia electoral roll on 25 January 1984. Any other person who was eligible for the Queensland State electoral roll on 31 December 1991 is only eligible to enrol for Queensland State and local government elections.
