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THE race is on for the October 17 local government elections, with 30 candidates vying for 14 seats in Armadale, Gosnells and Serpentine-Jarrahdale.
In Armadale, 13 candidates will contest six seats in the first-past-the-post contest for four-year terms.
Donna Shaw and Jim Stewart will contest Heron ward, June MacDonald and Bret Busby (Lake), Ruth Butterfield and Mark Dadd (River), Laurie Scidone and Caroline Wielinga (Jarrah), and Laurie Sargeson and Graham Wallace (Palomino).
There will be a three-way contest for Minnawarra between George Scott, Trevor Bourne and Matt Norman.
Councillors John Knezevich (Minnawarra) and Jim Everts (Palomino) will not re-contest their seats.
With no opponents, Guenter Best will retain his seat of Neerigen.
In Gosnells, the ward system has been eliminated, leaving 12 candidates to battle it out for six seats in a city-wide contest.
They are Roger Drew, Terry Brown, Olwen Searle, Ron Hoffman, Jennifer Napolitano, Susan Iwanyk, Salim Youssef, Julie Brown, Simon Tarnawskyj, Karen Jayne Jones, Frank Fretz and Daniel Stevens.
In Serpentine-Jarrahdale, five candidates will contest two seats, with Jackie Marsh, Tom Hoyer and Alex McHoul up for the Central ward and Denyse Needham and Ann-Marie Lowry (South).
North West councillors Kevin Murphy and Beth Brown, and Byford councillor Merri Harris have been re-elected unopposed.
All councillors will be elected via postal voting, which is being supervised by the WA Electoral Commission.
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