LODDON Shire Council elections last October had a large percentager voting than the state average.
The Victorian Electoral Commission’s report on the election was tabled at last week’s council meeting.
The VEC is paid by council to run the election that saw 86.97 per cent of enrolled voters return their ballot papers in the contested Inglewood and Tarnagulla wards.
Across Victoria the average was 83.79 per cent and Loddon’s participation was up on the 2020 election with 86.54 per cent voted.
“The election manager set aside 68 returned ballot paper envelopes that were not admitted to the extraction and counting process due to the voter not having signed the declaration envelope or, in the case of unenrolled declaration votes, an entitlement was not found for the person, or the declaration envelope was not returned with the vote,” the report said.