Sam Romano is the new Orange Deputy Mayor following a ballot at Tuesday night’s Council meeting. He defeated three other contenders in Joanne McRae, Kevin Duffy and Scott Munro.

His election will surprise many and continues the recent trend of surprise election results, even in our local Council. At the last local government election Sam polled much higher than many expected, this followed Phil Donato’s surprise win in the State seat and more recently, Scott Morrison’s come from nowhere effort to become our new Prime Minister.