2025 local government elections
The 2025 local government elections will take place on
18 October 2025.
This year's voting addresses six vacancies on the City of Cockburn Council:
- East Ward: One Councillor
- West Ward: Two Councillors
- Central Ward: Two Councillors
- Mayor
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 Friday, 22 August 2025 to be able to vote in the 2025 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 2025 local government elections are a postal election. Votes must be received by the Returning Officer by
6.00pm on election day, Saturday 18 October 2025.
Voting packs will be sent out in late 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, 13 October 2025. 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 Wednesday, 17 September and may take time to get to you. If you have not received your pack by Monday, 29 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.
Appointment of Returning Officer
The WAEC has appointed a Returning Officer for the City of Cockburn Local Government Elections. Contact details are as follows:
Name: Cornel Scheibling
Mobile Number: 0448 149 139
Email: [email protected]
More information and contact
More information is available through the following links or you can contact the City on
08 9411 3444 (between 8.30am to 4.30pm).
Statutory Notice - Close of Enrolments
See the
WAEC Statutory Notice - Close of Enrolments.