ALBURY mayoral contender Kevin Mack is poised to repeat the 2004 feat of the endorsed Liberal Party ticket in having three team members elected to council.
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Cr Mack has replicated the vote-winning spree of retired vet Arthur Frauenfelder whose 35 per cent of the vote helped Cr Alice Glachan and Paul Wareham get elected 12 years ago.
Cr Mack has 31.67 per cent of the vote counted to date which includes 5025 pre-poll votes.
No.2 ticket member and surgeon John Stuchbery is guaranteed a spot on the next council and the Cr Mack ticket is closing in on the quota required to have No.3 Murray King also elected.
Cr Mack's independent ticket has overcome some pre-election dramas when he had to replace two ticket members to slay the opposition.
Dr Stuchbery replaced Cr Mack's original No.2 Di Thomas and Mr King stepped up to take the spot vacated by Dianne Ovens.
Cr Mack topped the pre-polls with 1371 votes from Cr Glachan on 1151.
Cr Henk van de Ven, who could challenge Cr Mack for mayor when the final council line-up is revealed, was third on 739 votes.
A total of 22,951 formal votes have been counted with 224 votes from the declared institutions the most recent entered.
Cr Glachan pipped Cr Mack 56-55.
Data entry by NSW Electoral Commission staff will continue on Tuesday and Wednesday before the final results may be declared late on Thursday.
Based on voting so far the confirmed councillors are Cr Mack, Cr Glachan, Cr van de Ven, Dr Stuchbery and Greens' candidate Amanda Cohn.
Cr Darren Cameron and Cr David Thurley remain short of the quota required to be re-elected and will require preferences to get them across the line.
The same scenario confronts Cr Graham Docksey, who was the No.2 on the Cr Glachan ticket, and Mr King.
Meanwhile, Mullengandra's Kim Stewart is still ahead in the race to claim the third position in the Greater Hume Shire east ward alongside Cr Heather Wilton and Cr Tony Quinn.
The group of deputy mayor Doug Meyer, Cr Annette Schilg and Terry Weston are in the box seat to claim the three north ward positions.
The battle to join Cr Denise Osborne in south ward remains a race in three for two spots between Matt Hicks, Cr Jenny O'Neill and Cr Karen Schoff.