The elections for the new Board of Directors of the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria (GOCMV) were held on Sunday, with 314 members casting their vote out of approximately 1,500 eligible members.
As expected, all 19 candidates from the Papastergiadis ticket were elected, with the two independent candidates receiving only a few dozen votes between them.
Of the 314 ballots submitted, 15 were declared invalid.
Nick Dallas received the highest number of votes with 299, followed closely by Vicki Kyritsis with 298.
The newly elected board members will meet soon to formally constitute the board.
In a statement, the Electoral Committee announced the official results as follows:
Total number of voters: 314
Invalid ballots: 15
Elected candidates and vote counts
- Nick Dallas – 299
- Vicki Kyritsis – 298
- Spiridoula Demetriou – 297
- Michael Karamitos – 297
- Nick Koukouvitakis – 297
- Tass Sgardelis – 297
- Anthie Sidiropoulos – 297
- Jim Bossinakis – 296
- Mena Giannellis – 296
- Stella Moschos – 296
- Dora Papamakarios – 296
- Marinis Pirpiris – 295
- Chris Sikavitsas – 295
- Simela Stamatopoulos – 294
- Sophia Siachos – 294
- Bill Papastergiadis – 292
- Leonidas Vlahakis – 291
- Helene Hiotis – 289
- Manuel Tsirmiris – 285
Non-elected candidates
- Peter Diakrousis – 42
- Ange Kenos – 37
The announcement was declared on behalf of the Electoral Committee by:
George Kallianis (election day chair), Christos Kalavretinos, Vasilios Tsalkos, Emanuel Starakis, Christos Papadopoulos, Panagiota Dimitropoulos, Vasilios Sapoutsis, Tina Veloff and Kostas Tsoumbakos,
