2004 Sydney City Council election

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2004 Sydney City Council election
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Candidate Clover Moore Michael Lee Shayne Mallard
Party Team Clover Labor Liberal
 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
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IND
Candidate Chris Harris John Fowler Peter Collins
Party Greens Sydney Inds Ind. Liberal
Lord Mayor before election

Lucy Turnbull
Living Sydney

Subsequent Lord Mayor

Clover Moore
Team Clover

Councillors
All 10 seats on the City Council (including the lord mayor)
5 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader%Seats+/–
Team Moore Clover Moore 4+4
Labor Michael Lee 3
Liberal Shayne Mallard 1+1
Greens Chris Harris 1+1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2004 Sydney City Council election was held on 27 March 2004 to elect nine councillors and a lord mayor to the City of Sydney. The election was held as part of the statewide local government elections in New South Wales, Australia. [1] [2]

Contents

The election followed the amalgamation of Sydney with the neighbouring City of South Sydney. Independent MP Clover Moore was elected lord mayor, becoming the first popularly elected female Lord Mayor of Sydney. [3]

Background

In 2002, parts of the City of South Sydney and Leichhardt were proposed to be merged with the City of Sydney. In 2003, Potts Point, Elizabeth Bay, Kings Cross, Darlinghurst, Chippendale, Ultimo and parts of Rushcutters Bay, Camperdown and Darlington were transferred from South Sydney to the City of Sydney. As the financial viability of the residual City of South Sydney was under threat as a result, the City of Sydney and the City of South Sydney were combined by proclamation on 6 February 2004. [4] The 2003 merger was perceived as an attempt to bring more working class Labor Party voters into the City of Sydney. [5] [6]

Candidates

A total of 67 candidates stood for election, including 14 lord mayoral candidates. [7]

Lord mayoral candidates are listed in the order they appeared on the ballot: [8]

PartyCandidateBackground
  Liberal Shayne Mallard Former South Sydney councillor
  Democrats Spencer WuFormer Ashfield councillor who ran in the 1999 state election as leader of the Voice of the People Party [9] [10]
  Independent Dixie CoultonSydney councillor
  Independent Liberal Peter Collins Former Leader of the Opposition of New South Wales [11]
  Socialist Alliance Susan PriceUnionist [12]
  Independent Phillip Daley
  Greens Chris Harris
  Sydney Independents John Fowler Former South Sydney mayor [9]
  Independent Tony SpanosFerrymaster [13]
  Labor Michael Lee Former federal MP
  Independent Beverly BakerFormer NSW Parents and Citizens Association president [14]
  Team Clover Clover Moore Independent MP for Bligh [15]
  Independent Ormond McDermott
  Independent Matt LaffanLawyer and disability advocate [16]

Team Clover

On 24 February 2004, independent MP Clover Moore announced she would run for lord mayor, labelling the council's sacking a "cynical grab for power." Despite her ideological differences with Turnbull, she also sharply denounced the sacking of a democratically elected mayor. [17]

Moore formed the Clover Moore Independent team, which included six other candidates. [18]

Labor

Former federal MP Michael Lee contested as Labor's lord mayoral candidate. He officially announced his candidacy on 3 March 2004. [19]

Liberal

Former South Sydney councillor Shayne Mallard contested the election as the first-ever endorsed Liberal Party lord mayoral candidate. [20]

Others

The Greens contested the lord mayoralty for the first time, with Chris Harris as their candidate. [21] The Australian Democrats and Socialist Alliance both endorsed candidates. [22] [23]

Incumbent Sydney councillor Dixie Coulton, a former Living Sydney and Sydney Independents member, was one of six independent candidates. [24] [25]

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  2. ↑ "Local Government Mayoral Election Results". New South Wales Electoral Commission. 27 March 2004.
  3. ↑ "Clover, the maverick mayor". Sydney Morning Herald. 28 March 2004. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
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