When you enrol to vote, you are enrolled for Commonwealth, State and local government elections. You can check your enrolment online. 

You can:

This is important if you have: 

  • moved house 
  • changed your name 
  • turned 18 recently 
  • become an Australian citizen 
  • not yet joined the electoral roll or 
  • want to check or update your enrolment details 

How to vote

Optional preferential voting is the voting system used in Local government elections. This means you have the choice to number the candidates in the order of your preference. You do not have to number all the boxes if you don’t want to. 

You have the choice to: 

  • vote for one candidate - by putting a 1 next to their name 
  • vote for some candidates - by numbering several candidates in the order of your preference 
  • vote for all candidates - in the order of your preference  

Residents 

All residents in a local government district who are enrolled on the State Electoral Roll are automatically enrolled on the corresponding local government roll. 
People who own or occupy property within a local government district can apply to their local government to be included in the roll as an owner/occupier, as long as they are eligible electors.  Please note:  they must make this application if they wish to vote in the local government election.


All eligible electors are allowed to vote once in any district or ward for which they are enrolled. If a person lives within one local district or ward and owns or occupies property in a different district or ward, they may be entitled to a vote in both areas, provided they are enrolled for those addresses. For more information or to enrol as an owner/occupier, contact the Shire of Carnarvon. 

Enrolment Forms 

If you are not already on the State Electoral Roll and meet the eligibility criteria, or if you have changed address recently, you must complete an enrolment form. 
• Check your enrolment status here

• Online enrolment here

• Hard copy forms: Available from the Shire of Carnarvon, all post offices, all Australian Electoral Commission offices or the Western 

The form can be downloaded here: A017-Enrolment-Eligibility-Claim(DOC, 169KB) 

Electoral Ward Maps

Non-Resident Owner & Occupiers

If you are a non-resident owner or occupier of rateable property in the Shire of Carnarvon and are on the State or Commonwealth Electoral Roll, you are eligible to enrol to vote. If you are not on the State or Commonwealth Electoral Roll and own or occupy rateable property in the Shire of Carnarvon, you may be eligible to enrol to vote. 

This applies if you were on the last electoral roll for the Shire of Carnarvon prior to May 1996 and have owned or occupied rateable property in the district continuously since this time. Please contact the Shire for details. 

Owners of land who were on the last Local Government roll continue to retain that status until they cease to own the rateable property to which the enrolment relates. 
Occupiers do not have continuous enrolment and should contact the Shire of Carnarvon to confirm their enrolment status. To be eligible to enrol as an occupier, you will need to have a right of continuous occupation under a lease, tenancy agreement or other legal instruments for at least the next three months following the date of the application to enrol. 

Joint Owners & Occupiers 

If a rateable property is owned or occupied by more than two people, a majority of the owners/occupiers may nominate two persons from amongst themselves who are on either the State or Commonwealth Electoral Roll, to enrol as owner/occupier electors. 

Corporations

A body corporate that owns or occupies rateable property may nominate two people who are on either the State or Commonwealth Electoral Roll to enrol as owner/occupier electors.