The 2027 local government elections will take place in October 2027.
There will be five vacanies on the City of Cockburn Council:
- East Ward: Two Councillors
- West Ward: One Councillor
- Central Ward: One Councillor
View ward boundaries
Voting in local government elections is not mandatory, but your participation actively shapes our community's future.
Eligibility to vote
To be eligible to vote, you must be:
- a resident of the City of Cockburn and enrolled to vote in the State or Federal elections; or
- a non-resident and own or occupy rateable property in the City of Cockburn, and have made a successful eligibiity claim.
Enrolling to vote
If you are a resident and enrolled to vote in the State or Federal elections you do not need to enrol to vote. Please do check your enrolment online to ensure your details are up to date.
If you are a non-resident and own or occupy property in the City of Cockburn, you will need to enrol to vote. A maximum of two persons may enrol and vote per rateable property.
Use the below forms to enrol to vote:
If there are more than two co-owner or occupiers, or an owner/occupier is a body corporate, you will also need to fill in some additional forms:
Enrolment can be complex for non-resident owners and occupiers. Please
contact us if you need help figuring out what forms to complete.
You must be enrolled by 5pm TBA to be able to vote in the 2027 local government elections.
Not sure about your enrolment status?
If you are voting as a resident, you can
check your enrolment online.
If you are voting as a non-resident,
contact us to check your enrolment status.
Voting
The 2027 local government elections will be a postal election. Votes must be received by the Returning Officer by
6.00pm on election day.
Voting packs will be sent out in mid-September. Packs can be returned in the mail or handed in at the City’s Administration building at 9 Coleville Crescent, Spearwood during business hours (8.30am to 4.30pm), or at the Success Library during business hours (see their
Contact page for hours).
Votes can only be hand delivered to the City's Administration Building on election day. They cannot be hand delivered to Success Library on election day.
Please note: to ensure your vote receives the Returning Officer by the deadline, we strongly encourage you to hand deliver your vote
from Monday, the week of the election. Votes posted after this time may not make it back in time.
Didn't receive or you've lost your voting pack? Packs are being mailed from mid-September and may take time to get to you. If you have not received your pack by the end of September you can request a replacement pack by downloading and completing LG 15 - Application for Replacement Postal Voting Papers and bringing it to our Administration Building or Success Library during opening hours. See link below.
How to vote
Local government elections uses optional preferential voting.
Under this system you can choose from the following options:
- Vote for one candidate by marking a '1' next to their name
- Choose to vote for several candidates by numbering them in order of preference
- Or, vote for all candidates in order of your preference.
You're not required to fill in all the boxes if you don’t want to.
More information and contact
Returning Officer
Returning Officers are appointed by the WAEC to oversee the election. They should be the first port of call for any questions relating to the election. Contact details for the City of Cockburn's Returning Officer are as follows:
Name: TBA
Mobile Number: TBA
Email: [email protected]
More information is also available through the following links or you can contact the City on
08 9411 3444 (between 8.30am to 4.30pm).