This article discusses strata committee election vote counts in NSW, explaining in clear terms that all lot owners can access AGM voting results for committee candidates as part of the strata records.
Question: Are all lot owners entitled to obtain the voting count for committee candidates from an AGM?
Answer: All lot owners are entitled to obtain the voting count for committee candidates from an AGM.
In NSW, lot owners are entitled to obtain the voting results for strata committee elections held at an Annual General Meeting.
Under the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015, the owners corporation is required to keep records of meetings, including motions and election outcomes. These records form part of the strata records, which any lot owner is entitled to inspect or obtain copies of upon request.
This entitlement includes the voting count for strata committee candidates (i.e. the number of votes received by each candidate and the final outcome of the election).
Where an election is conducted by secret ballot, the secrecy relates to how individual owners voted in the meeting. Individual voting papers must disclose the voter’s name and lot details, the overall vote counts, and election results are not confidential and remain accessible to lot owners as part of the strata records.
Accordingly, all lot owners are entitled to obtain the voting count for committee candidates from an AGM.
Sean Bermingham
The Strata Collective
E: info@thestratacollective.com.au
P: 02 9137 2320
This post appears in the March 2026 edition of The NSW Strata Magazine.
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I have a question regarding maintenance repairs approval by committee…
One person has 6 units on committee and votes
4 other owners on committee. And votes.. Does this counts total 10 votes
Or 5 votes all up …?
1…Our repairs on dodgy garden were approved by committee
Red flags every where if I create scenario
Man with 6 units…. (6 votes.) —–Other 4 owners…( 4 votes )..
Logic tells why have votes at all … this man continues to brag how he has voting power.
I want to put in an idea like all other owners relating to increasing the capital works as we are running on warning light on .bal 28k.
Our strata rates fees ..per quarter..$730.00 tiny portion allocated for future repairs
We need to tidy up the place we are ten years behind in terms of keeping the place up respectable. Ps
I feel I’m wasting my time….I’m very angry as the man keeps trying to
put me of to spend money. Or refuses to get quotes to do repairs
Regards Boris
Hi Boris
We have just received this reply back from Sean Bermingham, The Strata Collective:
In terms of the voting at meetings, they are very different depending on the type of meeting.
At a Strata Committee Meeting it is one member one vote. There can only be one person per lot elected to the committee, up to a maximum of 9 under the legislation.
At a general meeting the voting is one vote per lot owned.
In the example below, if the owner with 6 lots is on a committee of 5, they only have one vote, not 6. They can easily be voted down by the other 4 committee members.
However, if the meeting is a general meeting, then they have their full 6 votes.
Sean Bermingham
The Strata Collective
W: thestratacollective.com.au
E: sbermingham@thestratacollective.com.au
T: 0291372320
This information is not intended to be personal advice and you should not rely on it as a substitute for any form of advice.