Margaret Fay Strelow is an Australian politician who served as the Mayor of the

Rockhampton Region The Rockhampton Region is a local government area (LGA) in Central Queensland, Australia, located on the Tropic of Capricorn about north of Brisbane. Rockhampton is the region's major city; the region also includes the Fitzroy River, Mount ...

from April 2012 to November 2020. Prior to her election as mayor of the newly amalgamated Rockhampton Region, Strelow served as a councillor for the

City of Rockhampton The City of Rockhampton was a local government area in the Central Queensland region of Queensland, Australia, encompassing most of the suburban area of the regional city of Rockhampton. The city covered an area of , and existed as a local go ...

from 1997 to 2000, and Mayor of the City of Rockhampton from 2000 to 2008. Strelow nominated to become the

Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also simply known as Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia, one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party forms t ...

candidate for the

Electoral district of Rockhampton Rockhampton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Wedged between the electoral districts of Keppel to the east and Mirani to the west, Rockhampton encompasses the bulk of the regional ...

at the

2017 Queensland state election The 2017 Queensland state election was held on 25 November 2017 to elect all 93 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the unicameral Parliament of Queensland. The first-term incumbent Labor government, led by Premier Annastacia ...

, however was not successful. She nominated to run for the seat as an independent candidate, and achieved 23.5% of the vote, finishing second on first preference votes to eventual winner Barry O'Rourke. On the 22nd of November 2020, following the result of a Councillor Conduct Tribunal, Margaret Strelow resigned from her position as Mayor of the Rockhampton Region.

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