The NSW Electoral Commission held a ballot draw for the 25 March election this morning.

The five candidates for Kiama, will be in this order:

• John Gill, running for the Sustainable Australia Party - Stop Overdevelopment/Corruption
• Tonia Gray, The Greens
• Melanie Gibbons, Liberal
• Gareth Ward, Independent
• Katelin McInnerney, Labor.

Until this time, The Bugle was unaware of Mr Gill's candidacy.

Pre-polling starts Saturday 18 March and will continue Monday to Friday of the next week.

There is a change of venue for the prepolling this year, with the Kiama Uniting Church, in Manning St, hosting the local event.