Rolling coverage: The 2017 Bayside Council elections

STAY tuned for the results from yesterday’s Local Government elections in the newly formed Bayside Council.

Supporters and voters at Mascot Public School for the Local Government Elections.

THE results from yesterday’s Local Government elections in Bayside are starting to come in and as predicted Labor is polling well in all five wards.

With approximately 50 per cent of the vote counted in the Port Botany Ward, it’s likely the party will bag two of the ward’s three seats, with former Botany Bay councillor Christina Curry and Maroubra Surf Life Saving Club patrol caption Scott Morrissey all but assured a place on council.

Christina Curry looks set to return to Local Government.

Overall, Labor has won 58.9 per cent of the vote in the ward.

In the Mascot Ward, Labor has won 40.5 per cent of the vote with Tarek Ibrahim bound for a seat in Council.

Former Rockdale councillor and independent Liz Barlow is likely to become a founding member of the Bayside Council alongside Labor’s Joe Awada and the Liberal Party’s Ron Bezic.

Liz Barlow.

In Botany Bay, Labor and Liberal are neck and neck with roughly 35 per cent each of the vote.

Labor’s Ed McDougall and Liberal’s Vicki Poulos should claim victory with the third seat up for grabs following preferencing.

Meanwhile, Labor is leaving its competitors in the dust in Rockdale, with 41 per cent of the vote compared to Liberal’s 24 per cent.