Berri Barmera Council | |||||||||||||
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 Location of the Berri Barmera Council in SA | |||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Murray and Mallee[1] | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1996 | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Berri | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • Mayor | Ella Winnall[2] | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 508 km2 (196 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Website | Berri Barmera Council | ||||||||||||
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Berri Barmera Council is alocal government area in theRiverland region ofSouth Australia.
It includes the towns ofBarmera,Berri,Cobdogla,Glossop,Katarapko,Loveday andWinkie, and parts ofMonash andOverland Corner.[3]
The Berri Barmera Council was created on 1 October 1996 with the amalgamation of theDistrict Council of Barmera and theDistrict Council of Berri.[4]
The District Council of Berri had been created in 1922, 11 years after the town was proclaimed. Its first major project was to provide reliable electricity to the entire area. It bought the Berri Electric Supply Company in 1936 to facilitate this, and later sold it to the Electricity Trust of South Australia, a state government agency.
The District Council of Barmera had been created as the "District Council of Cobdogla" on 17 June 1925 and been renamed Barmera in 1937. Barmera had been a soldier settlement community afterWorld War I.
The Berri Barmera Council has a directly-elected mayor.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Independent | Rhonda Centofanti (elected) | 1,006 | 32.0 | ||
| Independent | Bruce Richardson (elected) | 496 | 15.8 | ||
| Independent | Trevor Scott (elected) | 354 | 11.3 | ||
| Independent | Collis Marrett (elected) | 243 | 7.7 | ||
| Independent | Andrew Kassebaum (elected) | 224 | 7.1 | ||
| Independent | David Waterman (elected) | 220 | 7.0 | ||
| Independent | Adrian Little (elected) | 215 | 6.8 | ||
| Independent | Ian Schlein (elected) | 206 | 6.6 | ||
| Independent | Meta Sindos | 178 | 5.7 | ||
| Total formal votes | 3,142 | 96.9 | |||
| Informal votes | 102 | 3.1 | |||
| Turnout | 3,244 | 42.9 | |||
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