A community group seeking an independent candidate to represent the electorate of Page has concluded its 2025 election candidate selection process, without selecting a candidate.

The group, Voices Of Page, has announced it will not be putting forward a candidate at the upcoming election. That leaves the registered candidates at five for the May 3 election (2025 Federal Election).

Despite receiving several candidate nominations, the group has been unable to select a suitable candidate in time for the May 3rd Election.

Tim Williams, a member of Voices Of Page, said, “Our group formed late last year, and is passionate about integrity in politics. We have been working to find a candidate who really knows our community, can champion its people, and has the right set of values.”

“We are sad to say we haven’t found the right candidate for this election, and to be honest, we left our run too late. We needed more time, so a candidate had a chance to fundraise and build their campaign.”

“We won’t stop what we are doing. We are determined to work with the community to find an outstanding candidate for the following election.”

“Over the past few months, we’ve refined our candidate selection criteria, based on feedback from the community. This provided us with a very clear picture of the characteristic we’d expect to find in a strong independent candidate.”

“For this election, we conducted a candidate identification and selection process. We took nominations and we’ve talked with a number of potential candidates. “

“Ultimately, we have not been able to find a candidate that has the energy to put themselves forward at this election, and whose values fully align with our group candidate selection criteria.”

“We want to thank the wonderful people who nominated themselves or who were nominated by others as potential candidates. They were all people of good character, and they each have a lot to offer the community. We will continue to take candidate nominations and talk with all of the potential candidates to see what the future holds.”

“We knew from the outset that we didn’t have much time to find a candidate and unfortunately time has got the better of us.”

“We are not going away. During the election campaign, we’ll be attending community events, growing our membership base, listening to the community and searching for our future election candidate.”

People wishing to find out more, nominate a potential candidate or find out more about Voices Of Page can visit the group’s website at www.voicesofpage.org.