Contentious plans for the redevelopment of the old Subiaco market with an apartment block were approved during Ms Taylor’s term but community concern around target areas pushed by the state government for higher density saw a new block of councillors gain control of council votes.
“I am immensely proud of what I and council have achieved in the last four years despite the deliberate distractions and embarrassing tactics by some,” Ms Taylor said.
The council was investigated for dysfunction by the state government last year after the exit of a former chief executive.
Rockingham deputy mayor Deb Hamblin gets to wear the chains with the retirement of long-term mayor Barry Sammels.
She has been on the council for 16 years and has become its first female mayor.
Lorna Buchan was runner-up with 897 less votes.
A bloodless election was held in the affluent Mosman Park where Paul Shaw came in unopposed to replace Brett Pollock.
Jim O’Neill in East Fremantle and Jock Barker in Claremont were both re-elected as mayors without any opponents.
Lorraine Young, who had been acting mayor for Cottesloe since the retirement of Phil Angers for health reasons, was comfortably re-elected with more than 60 per cent of the vote in her head-to-head battle with former mayor Kevin Morgan.
Prominent Greens donor and party member Chilla Bulbeck was also elected as a councillor in Cottesloe after an unsuccesful run in 2019.
Cockburn’s Logan Howlett was voted back as mayor with 44 per cent of the vote and has been the man in charge at the council for 11 years.
Former Barnett government Environment Minister Albert Jacob was returned for a second term as Joondalup mayor with 52 per cent of the vote.
Ousted Carine Liberal MP Tony Krsticevic won a spot back on the Stirling council after losing what was thought to be a safe blue ribbon seat in the blowout WA election where his party was left with just two politicians in the legislative assembly.
Failed Liberal candidates from the March state election Suzanne Migdale, Paul Miles, Linda Aitken, and Nicole Robbins were all returned to councillor positions.
The new WA Labor state president Lorna Clarke was re-elected to Bayswater as a councillor.
The inaugural West Coast Eagles coach Ron Alexander manage to snag a councillor position at the City of Vincent.
Mr Alexander spent more than a decade as the director general of the former WA Department of Sport and Recreation before amalgamations of different government units in 2017.
A recount was held for Perth council on Sunday after a difference of seven votes between the fourth and fifth placed candidates for the last vacancy.
All four sitting councillors who were up for election – Clyde Bevan, Liam Gobbert, Brent Fleeton, and Viktor Ko – were returned after the recount.
Dr Ko won the last vacancy just 12 votes ahead of Raj Doshi.
Declared Greens candidates fail to win a seat
Formal party politics is publicly kept at arms length generally from local government elections in WA where voting is not compulsory.
But this year the Greens endorsed two candidates who ran at Stirling and Bayswater respectively.
Lucy Nicol garnered about 12 per cent of the vote in the Stirling ward of Lawley for a third-place finish while Isabella trip came last out of three for her ward battle in Bayswater.
Local government elections: New era in Fremantle, a former Eagle rises and a recount in Perth - WAtoday
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