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Ward 1Council electoral area
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Ward 4Council electoral area
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2022 Playford — Ward 1

historical-contested · ordinary

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2022-11-10 · ECSA ordinary2022 postal voting closed 5pm10 November 2022; counting began 12November. Unopposed/failed offices have no invented poll or votes. Later recounts, court corrections and current office are separate.

Australia/Adelaide · Published closing time: 2022-11-10T17:00:00+10:30. The clock respects this deadline. The clock does not refresh results or declare a winner. 2022 local election arrangement; delivered current geometry is a separately dated snapshot and is not asserted to represent2022 boundaries.

Official event / results

11 recorded contestants · names, affiliations and public records

2022 Playford — Ward 1 · event-specific contestant records
Name / public profile	Affiliation at this event	Recorded status / result	Source
BALFORT, Gary	Affiliation not recorded	Ward 1 · not elected in this2022 result workbook · 177 first preference votes	Official record
DIESSA, Possible	Affiliation not recorded	Ward 1 · not elected in this2022 result workbook · 320 first preference votes	Official record
DOUGLAS, Victoria Jayne	Affiliation not recorded	Ward 1 · not elected in this2022 result workbook · 97 first preference votes	Official record
KUHLMANN, Rita	Affiliation not recorded	Ward 1 · not elected in this2022 result workbook · 64 first preference votes	Official record
MARSH, Clint	Affiliation not recorded	Ward 1 · elected in this2022 result workbook · 717 first preference votes	Official record
MCDONALD, Rita Anne	Affiliation not recorded	Ward 1 · not elected in this2022 result workbook · 92 first preference votes	Official record
MUSOLINO, Dino	Affiliation not recorded	Ward 1 · not elected in this2022 result workbook · 557 first preference votes	Official record
NICOL, Phillip	Affiliation not recorded	Ward 1 · not elected in this2022 result workbook · 158 first preference votes	Official record
RENTOULIS, Peter	Affiliation not recorded	Ward 1 · elected in this2022 result workbook · 915 first preference votes	Official record
TAME, Cathy Jo	Affiliation not recorded	Ward 1 · not elected in this2022 result workbook · 150 first preference votes	Official record
VANDEPEEAR, Rebecca	Affiliation not recorded	Ward 1 · elected in this2022 result workbook · 737 first preference votes	Official record

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Sources, boundaries & coverage

Boundary basis: Location SA source snapshot checked 17 October 2026; preceding ward structures where 2024/2025 reviews apply; not verified as the next periodic election edition. Geographic boundaries describe the sourced edition; they do not determine a person's current address entitlement.

Location SA: Local Government Area Wards (dataset 836) · checked 2026-10-17. Dataset metadata: AusGOAL CC BY (Attribution); metadata report CC BY 3.0 Australia. Copyright Crown in right of South Australia and licensors; original terms retained.
Primary web review: Grant identity and SA council ward edition changes · checked 2026-10-17
Location SA ward retained original: ids.json · checked 2026-10-17. Dataset metadata: AusGOAL CC BY (Attribution); metadata report CC BY 3.0 Australia. Copyright Crown in right of South Australia and licensors; original terms retained.
Location SA ward retained original: features-0.json · checked 2026-10-17. Dataset metadata: AusGOAL CC BY (Attribution); metadata report CC BY 3.0 Australia. Copyright Crown in right of South Australia and licensors; original terms retained.
Location SA ward retained original: features-100.json · checked 2026-10-17. Dataset metadata: AusGOAL CC BY (Attribution); metadata report CC BY 3.0 Australia. Copyright Crown in right of South Australia and licensors; original terms retained.
ECSA 2022 council election contest-controls · checked 2026-10-17. Minimal event-specific public candidate, result and typed vote facts. Full copyrighted workbook remains local-only.
ECSA 2022 postal voting close and separate count start · checked 2026-10-17. Minimal election-calendar facts; publisher rights retained.
ECSA 2022 council election candidate-and-historical-elected-master · checked 2026-10-17. Minimal event-specific public candidate, result and typed vote facts. Full copyrighted workbook remains local-only.
ECSA 2022 council election sa-council-45680-results · checked 2026-10-17. Minimal event-specific public candidate, result and typed vote facts. Full copyrighted workbook remains local-only.

Official Location SA ward source feature; original geometry, multipart components, holes and coordinates retained. Source ward and parent labels are retained separately from the normalized display name.
The 2024/2025 representation review changes this council for the next periodic election: 5 to 4 wards. This page preserves the preceding source ward, and must not be used as the upcoming-election ward map. See the linked ECSA review/gazette source; new geometry and successor joins remain unresolved.
From polling day of the next periodic election, four wards named Ward 1 to Ward 4 each elect three councillors. The retained five-ward polygons are a preceding edition. Gazette 2025-12-11, p. 4936; https://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/images/Council_Boundaries_2026/Playford_Gazette%20Notice_11%20December%202025.pdf
This source snapshot has not been verified as the next periodic council-election boundary edition. No current ward member or previous contestant is inferred from geometry; individual reconciliation remains required.
The2022 ward contest has an exact parent-and-name correspondence. Its historical arrangement is kept separate from the current delivered ward geometry; no boundary equivalence is asserted.

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