RUSSO PIPPED AT THE POST IN 2010 ELECTION.
The Returning Officers Report for the Hindmarsh Ward election shows that the race for the second Councillor position was won by a handful of votes at the 8th preference distribution by Craig Aurich – who trailed by some 18 votes up until the very last round of preference distributions. Full details can be found in the Council Agenda here: http://www.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/cl10-11-29.pdf (page 16 on_)
A dismal 26% turnout seems to indicate that none of the groupings active in the campaign managed to generate much public interest in what was ostensibly a bland policy free election campaign. Below the surface tensions have erupted on the Save St Clair Facebook page post election however, with one member, the local MP Mick Atkinson, accusing a Hindmarsh resident of hypocrisy over the election campaign, after a speech in Parliament was quoted on the website
[HI report by Chris, who can remember 80% turnouts in time of the old Council]
