A SHATTERED Adele Carles has laughed off suggestions she might run for Fremantle mayor in October.

“The Sunday Times made up the mayor rumour, I laughed when I read that,” she wrote to the Herald shortly after being trounced in the March 9 election.

Analysts had suggested she might score a primary vote in the “low to mid-teens” but she polled much lower, just 5.5 per cent.

Given her high local profile over the past four years she’d have expected to have done better. The woman who’d made history for the Greens by wresting Fremantle from Labor at a 2009 by-election—only to later quit the party following her affair with Troy Buswell—begged off a face-to-face interview saying, as she emptied out her office, she wasn’t in the right frame of mind .

“I am disappointed but also relieved, it’s bittersweet for me. Simone [McGurk] worked hard to win the seat and I wish her well,” was all Ms Carles would provide via email.

by STEVE GRANT and BRENDAN FOSTER