Barunga West Council

The Barunga West Council is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia.^[2] The council seat is at Port Broughton, with a sub-office at Bute.^[5]

Barunga West Council South Australia
Location of the Barunga West Council
Area	1,528 km2 (590.0 sq mi)
Mayor	Leonie Kerley[1]
Council seat	Port Broughton
Region	Yorke and Mid North[2]
State electorate(s)	Frome[3] Goyder[4]
Federal division(s)	Grey
Website	Barunga West Council
LGAs around Barunga West Council: Spencer Gulf Port Pirie Regional Council Port Pirie Regional Council Barunga West Council Wakefield Regional Council Copper Coast Council Yorke Peninsula Council Wakefield Regional Council

Description

The council takes its name from the Barunga Range in the eastern part of the council area.^[6] The council covers an area in the Mid North and bordering the top of the Yorke Peninsula which includes the towns and localities of Alford, Bute, Clements Gap, Fisherman Bay, Kulpara, Melton, Ninnes, Port Broughton, Thomas Plain, Wokurna and Ward Hill, and parts of Mundoora, Paskeville, South Hummocks, Tickera and Willamulka.^[7] The main industries are tourism and growing grain.^{[citation needed]}

History

It was formed in 1997 from the amalgamation of the District Council of Bute and the District Council of Port Broughton.^[8] The council boundaries closely follow the boundaries of the six cadastral hundreds of the County of Daly which formed the original local governing bodies in the area in the late 1800s, namely the hundreds of Mundoora and Wokurna (District Council of Mundoora), and the hundreds of Ninnes, Wiltunga, Tickera and Kulpara (District Council of Ninnes).

Council

Current composition

Party		Councillors
	Labor	1
	Independents	8
	Total	9

Ward	Councillor		Notes
Unsubdivided[1]
		Leonie Kerley	Mayor
		Cynthia Axford
		Kevin Beinke
		Peter Button	Deputy Mayor
		Dave Eason
		Kim Gregory
		Brian Lockyer
		Margaret McDonald
		Grant Rowlands

2022 election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 South Australian local elections § Barunga West.[edit]

2022 South Australian local elections: Barunga West^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Peter Button (elected)	265	25.2
	Independent	Cynthia Axford (elected)	247	23.5
	Independent	Leonie Kerley (elected)	161	15.3
	Independent Labor	Kim Gregory (elected)	122	11.6
	Independent	Kevin John Beinke (elected)	67	6.4
	Independent	Grant Rowlands (elected)	56	5.3
	Independent	Brian John Lockyer (elected)	53	5.0
	Independent	Dave Eason (elected)	35	3.3
	Independent	Margaret McDonald (elected)	21	2.0
	Independent	Georgie Simmons	17	1.6
	Independent	Rob Locke	9	0.9
Total formal votes			1,053	96.87
Informal votes			34	3.13
Turnout			1,087	51.31

Mayors

• unknown (1997-????)
• Dean Dolling (2011-2013?)
• Cynthia Axford (2014–2018)