Townsville City Council Division 1 by-election
A by-election will be held to elect a new Councillor for Division 1 of Townsville City Council. Election day is Saturday 19 September 2026.
Division 1 includes the suburbs of Deeragun, Rollingstone, Bluewater and Toomulla among others. If you don't know what Division you live in, check our Where is my electorate? tool.
This is a full postal by-election. Voting materials will be mailed to all people enrolled in Division 1 of Townsville City Council after the close of candidate nominations on Thursday 20 August 2026.
If you used a different postal address than your residential address when you enrolled to vote, your ballot pack will be sent to the postal address.
Do you need to change your postal address, update your enrolment or enrol for the first time? You can do at that the AEC's website.
View the notice of election.
View the election timetable.
The timetable for the by-election is set in accordance with the Local Government Electoral Act 2011. The election period began following the publication of the notice of election.
- Notice of election – Tuesday 11 August 2026
- Close of electoral roll - Monday 17 August 2026
- Candidate nominations – Tuesday 11 August through 12pm Thursday 20 August 2026
- Election day – Saturday 19 September 2026
- Postal vote completion deadline – Saturday 19 September 2026 at 6pm
- Postal vote return deadline – Tuesday 29 September 2026 at 5pm
This is a full postal election, and voting materials will been mailed to people enrolled to vote in this council division.
Postal voting materials can not be printed until after the ballot paper order draw on Thursday 20 August 2026.
If you don't receive your postal voting materials or need them sent to an alternate address, please contact the ECQ on 1300 881 665.
You can complete your postal vote as soon as you get it. Make sure you:
- tear the ballot paper from the declaration envelope
- follow the instructions on the ballot paper
- fold your ballot paper in half to conceal your vote and place it into the declaration envelope
- seal the declaration envelope and sign it before a witness. Your witness has to sign it too.
- put the declaration envelope in the reply-paid envelope and post it to ECQ.
You must have completed your vote by 6pm Saturday 19 September 2026.
The ECQ must receive it by 5pm Tuesday 29 September 2026 for your vote to be counted.
Nominations close at 12pm on Thursday 20 August 2026.
More information:
- Fact sheet 1 – Eligibility to become a candidate in local government elections PDF (0.21 MB)
- Fact sheet 2 – Nominating as a candidate for local government elections PDF (0.25 MB)
- Form 5 LGA - Nomination form (endorsed) PDF (0.69 MB)
- Form 6 LGA - Nomination form (non endorsed) PDF (0.66 MB)
All candidates unless they are sitting councillors must complete the free training course So you want to be a councillor? (Opens in a new tab) conducted by the Department of Local Government, Water and Volunteers.
This course must be completed within 6 months of nominating which means if you already completed the course before nominating for the Townsville mayoral by-election in 2025, you will need to retake it and get a new certificate of completion.
The course is fully online and will take about 90 minutes to complete. After finishing the training, you will want to download your certificate of completion. The certificate contains a reference number that must be included on your nomination form.
- Expenditure cap period – Tuesday 11 August to 6pm Saturday 19 September 2026
- 24-hour disclosure period commences – Thursday 10 September 2026
- Publisher and broadcaster election summary returns due – Monday 16 November 2026
- Candidate, registered political party, associated entity and registered third party election summary returns due – Monday 4 January 2027
Name: Liz Sutton
Office address: Deeragun Village (Coles) , Rangeview St, Deeragun
Contact number: 0461 274 654