HURSTVILLE voters at the local government elections on September 8 will choose from a field of 70 candidates to fill the 12 positions.
The Hurstville Council area comprises three wards: Penshurst, 26 candidates, Peakhurst (20), and Hurstville (24), and includes Allawah, Beverly Hills, Carlton, Hurstville, Kingsgrove, Lugarno, Mortdale, Narwee, Oatley, Peakhurst, Penshurst and Riverwood.
Of the 69 candidates, 37 are independents, 12 Labor, 12 Liberal and 8 Unity.
Each ward has four Liberal and four Labor candidates. The eight Unity people are split between Penshurst and Hurstville wards.
Sixty candidates will be campaigning for 15 positions on Rockdale Council, following the close of nominations last week.
Of the council's five wards, third (Brighton-Le-Sands and parts of Rockdale) and fourth (Bexley and Carlton), have the most contenders with 15 candidates in each signing up to contest the six spots on offer. All up, 27 of the 60 candidates are independents, three are from the Greens and the remaining 30 are split evenly between Labor and Liberal.
Kogarah council's 12 seats will be contested by 47 hopefuls.
Independents have the largest share of the ballot, with 14 people seeking election without party backing.
The Liberal and Labor parties are each represented by 12 candidates, while the Greens, Unity Party and Kogarah Residents Association have three candidates each.
The council is destined for a shake-up as only eight councillors are standing for re-election.
The densely populated east ward, which takes in Hurstville, Allawah and Carlton, has 14 candidates.
Residents near Kogarah and Beverley Park will have 13 north ward candidates to choose from
Hurstville Council
HURSTVILLE WARD
WANG Leigh, independent
Macdonald Amber, independent
Dai Li, independent
Lee Y, independent
Xie Stanley, independent
Huang Shuping, independent
Xu Xintai, independent
Liang Sunny, independent
Badalati Vince, Labor
Drane Colin, Labor
Greene Frances, Labor
Stevens Craig, Labor
Bao Cathy, independent.
Maestrelli Ferdinando, independent
Fu Yunling, independent
Zhen Yansen, independent
Liu Nancy, Unity Party
Wu Si, Unity Party
Aronis Lucky, Unity Party
Tasevski Nikola, Unity Party
Istephan Andrew, Liberal
Feng Tim, Liberal
Hayward Bernie, Liberal
Li Wei, Liberal.
PEAKHURST WARD
PICKERING Bill, independent
Manners Lyn, independent
Brown Loretta, independent
Day Athol, independent
Kastanias Rita, independent
Meecham Natasha, independent
Lawlor Natalie, independent
Ball Suzanne, independent
Jacovou Jack, Liberal
Hindi Miray, Liberal
Reid Helen, Liberal
Harwin Evelyn, Liberal
Stevens Michelle, Labor
Missingham Terry, Labor
Smith Dylan, Labor
Leon Sony, Labor
Sansom Philip, independent
Waters Cathy, independent
Le Cindy, independent
Sansom Sebastien, independent.
PENSHURST WARD
JOBSON Jon, independent
Bank Abid, Independent
Palmer Dale, independent
Smith Ian, independent
Perry David, independent
Carter Wayne, independent
Brickwood Elma, independent
Hampton Andrew, independent
Huang Tony, independent
O'Brien Diane, independent
Mining Justin, Labor
Sin Dominic, Labor
Doherty-Brady Margaret, Labor
Towson David, Labor
Hindi Con, Liberal
Wu Christina, Liberal
Tiricovski Nick, Liberal
Streeter David, Liberal
Ho Marcus, Unity Party
Li Pak, Unity Party
Cheung Jansen, Unity Party
Cheung Seng, Unity Party
Briscoe-Hough Greg, independent
Briscoe-Hough A., independent
Russell N, independent
Russell R, independent.
Rockdale Council
FIRST WARD
MARK Hanna, independent
Peter Poulos, Liberal
Andrew Tsounis, Labor
Les Crompton, Labor
Georgina Hrdina, Liberal
Kosta Karavanas, independent
Samantha Han, Labor
Patricia Kalligas, Liberal
Jenny Yu, independent.
SECOND WARD
TAREK Ibrahim, Labor
Nicholas, Mickovski, Liberal
Michael Nagi, independent
Vesna Tenodi, independent
Ritsa, Bezic, Liberal
Ali Khamis, independent
Kiro Pasovski, Labor
Bernie Sharah, independent
Jan Brennan, Liberal
Moussa Chahine, independent
Damir Tenodi, independent
Jack Yan, Labor.
THIRD WARD
RAMI Abdallah, independent
Lesa De Leau, The Greens
Petros Kalligas, Liberal
Bill Saravinovski, Labor
George Saravinovski, independent
Khalil Ibrahim, Labor
Barbara Martin, independent
David Morgan, The Greens
Belinda Saravinovska, independent
Lydia, Sedrak, Liberal
Evelyn, Collaro, The Greens
Con Peppas, Liberal
Con Tsilikounas, Labor
Meillie Wong, independent
Rade, Zajakovski, independent.
FOURTH WARD
JOE Awada, Labor
Liz Barlow, independent
Kerry Koliadis, independent
Paul Sedrak, Liberal
Prem Singh, independent
Kam Chan, independent
Peter Hee, Labor
Cathy Jackson, independent
Michael Pavlides, independent
Magdi Raphael, Liberal
Robert Apostolovski, independent
Khal Assaad, Labor
George Koliadis, independent
Maria Poulos, Liberal
Ying Xu, independent.
FIFTH WARD
RON Bezic, Liberal
James MacDonald, independent
Shane O'Brien, Labor
Bill Aston, independent
Steve Kamper, Labor
Vicki Poulos, Liberal
David D'Amato, Liberal
Salliane Faulkner, independent
Emma Maiden, Labor.
Kogarah Council
WEST WARD
NICHOLAS Aroney, Liberal
George Katsabaris, Liberal
Lorne Clarke, Liberal
Peter Sangster, The Greens
Jenny Kent, The Greens
Miles Rothwell, The Greens
Jacinta Petroni, Labor
Nicholas Platt, Labor
Sandy Grekas, Labor
Michele Adair, independent.
NORTH WARD
LACHLAN McLean, independent
Christine Woodland, independent
Darren Clift, independent
Nick Katris, Labor
Colleen Symington, Labor
Kevin Mooney, Labor
Stephen Agius, Liberal
Daniel De Jesus, Liberal
Dorette Varvaris, Liberal
Lee Murphy, independent
Jim Kokkinakis, independent
Max Brightwell, independent
Brad Buffoni, independent.
MIDDLE WARD
KATHRYN Landsberry, Labor
Fran Smith, Labor
Sophie Kirk, Labor
Nickolas Varvaris, Liberal
Nathaniel Smith, Liberal
Jieke Zhou, Liberal
Leesha Payor, Kogarah Residents Association
Ken Leach, Kogarah Residents Association
Jim Colquhoun, Kogarah Residents Association
Tania Green, independent.
EAST WARD
JIAN Zhou, independent
Hua He, independent
Yong Qian, independent
Sam Stratikopoulos, Liberal
Christine Smith, Liberal
Victoria Hubbard, Liberal
Michael Platt, Labor
John Marcus, Labor
Andrew Silk, Labor
Annie tang, Unity party
Yunzheng Zhang, Unity Party
Hong Woo, Unity Party
Ross Clark, independent
Neale Murden, independent.