On August 15 the paper ballot draw was held at Centenary Hall in Albion Park with Cameron Mcdonald and his team securing the coveted group A spot. 

The order is as follows:  

Group A: Cameron McDonald

Group B: Alan Smith

Group C: Matt Brown

Group D: Imogen Draisma

Group E: Melinda Lawton

Group F: Mike Cains 

Group G: Yasmin Tatrai

Group H: Mark Croxford

Mark Whalan of the Greens party, who were drawn in group E, says that the order of the ballot does have a small impact on voters when they go to vote. 

“Basically people think you’ve got a much better chance. People will vote for who they know, the advantage of the greens is we are a very familiar name. Statistics say that you have a .5% advantage being A on the ballot paper,” says Whalan. 

“But I must say I had a brother in law run for council and he was number 2 on the ticket and he got 90% of the votes, so strange things can happen. “

Also drawn was the Shellharbour Mayor ballot which was drawn as follows:

A: Chris Homer 

B: Rob Petreski

C: Paul Rankin