RESULTS of Alpine Shire Council's election will be officially declared at the Victorian Electoral Commission election office in Bright at 4pm Friday.

Provisional results from the VEC listing the seven successfully elected candidates, from the field of 12, are: Sarah Nicholas (1st), John Andersen (2nd), Gareth Graham (3rd), Peter Smith (4th), Noah Tanzen (5th), David Byrne (6th), and Jean-Pierre Ronco (7th).

Following Friday's declaration, all seven councillors are to be sworn in, to serve their four year term, at the Alpine Shire Council offices in Bright next Thursday, and they will attend their first council meeting on Tuesday, November 25 at 5pm at the offices, where a mayor and deputy mayor will be elected.

Ms Nicholas was the only councillor from the past four years seeing re-election and she was the first elected, claiming 1430 first preference votes, which was 18.11 per cent of the total vote and well over the 988 vote quota required for election.

Mr Andersen was the only other candidate to be elected on first preference votes, gaining 1255 (515.89%), with proportional counting helping decide the remaining five successful candidates to achieve the required quota.

For the record, first preference votes were:

Sarah Nicholas 1430 (18.11%)

John Andersen 1255 (15.89%)

David Byrne 794 (10.06%)

Noah Tanzen 789 (9.99%)

Gareth Graham 742 (9.40%)

Peter Smith 732 (9.27%)

Kevin Grentell 595 (7.54%)

Jean-Pierre Ronco 482 (6.10%)

Kitty Knappestein 437 (5.53%)

Ray Dyer 325 (4.12%)

Bruce McDonald 163 (2.06%)

Sebastian Collyer 152 (1.93%)

We will have full coverage in next Wednesday's edition of the Myrtleford Times/Alpine Observer.