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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Catie McLeod and Sharlotte Thou

Mixed bag for Labor and the rise of the Libertarians: the key surprises in the NSW local elections

Line of people queue up outside a voting station in a community centre
Voting at the Hurstville Senior citizens and community centre on Saturday. Photograph: Richard Milnes/Rex/Shutterstock

The counting of votes has resumed to determine the makeup of New South Wales’s 128 councils for the next four years.

The main story of the local government elections was the Liberal party’s disastrous failure to lodge the paperwork to nominate more than a third of its candidates.

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