Votes have been counted in local elections. Here are your councillors
By Rachael Dexter and Tom Cowie
Who will represent you in your local council for the next four years? How many new faces are among elected councillors in your area, and how many votes did they get?
Use our interactive below to find out the make-up of your council (if it’s in Greater Melbourne) after votes have been counted in Victorian council elections.
The interactive does not include results for the Lalor ward in the City of Whittlesea and Baird ward in Knox City Council after the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) on Tuesday referred a suspected high number of multiple returned votes in these wards to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal for review and Victoria Police for investigation.
The interactive only includes results for Greater Melbourne. Regional council results are available on the VEC website.
Victorians voted by post in October and voting closed on October 25. As of this year, all metropolitan councils – except for the City of Melbourne – have shifted to single-member wards.
The results in our interactive table for each ward show the winner and unsuccessful candidates at the last voting stage. In some wards, the winner was decided on voters’ first preferences, while in others, the result was gained after distribution of preferences. This means that no candidate gained more than 50 per cent of the vote on first preferences. A few councillors were elected unopposed.
In Victoria, candidates are not legally required to disclose party membership to the electoral commission. The political party affiliations in this table have been determined by The Age from pre-election survey results the masthead conducted, public records, contact with political parties, VEC candidate statements and surveys conducted by other media and community organisations. We have included localised groups candidates used as part of their campaigning.
In the City of Melbourne, voters elected a lord mayor and deputy lord mayor, as well as nine councillors. Residents lodged one vote each, while eligible businesses had two votes.
Nick Reece and Roshena Campbell were elected lord mayor and deputy lord mayor after distribution of preferences as there was no clear winner on first-preference votes.
Nine councillors were elected by proportional representation.
See who they are and how many total votes their teams won in the table below. For more information on unsuccessful candidates, see the VEC results for the City of Melbourne here.
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