This is a list of results for the 2021 New South Wales local elections in the Murray region, including the Far West.
Albury
Albury City Council is composed of composed of nine councillors elected proportionally to a single ward. At the 2016 election, independents and local groups won 76.61% of the vote.
The Albury Citizens and Ratepayers Movement, which had 1.20% of the vote in 2016 and previously had an elected councillor, disbanded in 2019.
Greens councillor Amanda Cohn did not seek re-election but remained on the party's ticket for the election.
Albury results
Berrigan
Broken Hill
Broken Hill City Council is composed of nine councillors elected proportionally to a single ward, as well as a directly-elected mayor. At the 2016 election, Labor won a plurality with four councillors, along with Darriea Turley elected mayor.
Independent councillor Tom Kennedy formed the "For A Better Broken Hill" (FABBH) group for the election, while another independent councillor − Ron Page − joined Dave Gallagher's "Team Broken Hill" group.
The Greens, which had 4.97% of the vote in 2016, did not recontest. However, Ghislaine 'Gigi' Barbe, who ran fourth on the Greens ticket in 2016, ran as an independent.
FABBH won a majority in a landslide victory, electing all six of its candidates, including Kennedy being elected mayor.
Broken Hill mayor
Broken Hill results
Edward River
Federation Elected councillor Party Patrick Bourke Independent (Group A) David Fahey Independent (Group A) Andrew Kennedy Independent (Group C) Aaron Nicholls Independent (Group E) Shaun Whitechurch Independent (Group D) Sally Hughes Independent (Group B) David Longley Independent Rowena Black Independent Gail Law Independent
Greater Hume +2021 New South Wales local elections: Greater Hume Party Votes % Swing Seats Change Independent 4,037 100.0 9 Formal votes 4,037 95.60 Informal votes 186 4.40 Total 4,223 100.00 9
East
North
West
Murray River Murray River Council is composed of three wards electing three councillors each, totalling nine councillors.
The 2021 election was uncontested, with 2 seats left vacant. A by-election was scheduled to be held in 2022 to fill Greater Murray and Greater Wakool wards, however, following the close of nominations, only 1 candidate was nominated in each ward, resulting in the election of Geoff Wise for Greater Murray and Dennis Gleeson for Greater Wakool.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; margin-bottom:0" |+2021 New South Wales local elections: Murray River ! style="width:10px" colspan=3 | Party ! style="width:70px;"| Votes ! style="width:40px;"| % ! style="width:70px;"| Swing ! style="width:40px;"| Seats ! style="width:40px;"| Change
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Independent | style="width:70px;"| unopposed | style="width:40px;"| | style="width:55px;"| | style="width:40px;"| 7 | style="width:55px;"| |- ! colspan="3" rowspan="1" | Total
| 9
Greater Murray
Greater Wakool
Moama
Wentworth
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