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The 2021 Sydney City Council election was held on 4 December 2021 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]
Clover Moore was re-elected Lord Mayor of Sydney. [2]
Incumbent councillors are highlighted in bold text.
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Team Clover | Clover Moore | 50,896 | 42.9 | −14.9 | |
| Liberal | Shauna Jarrett | 17,891 | 15.1 | −3.9 | |
| Labor | Linda Scott | 17,367 | 14.7 | +4.2 | |
| Unite for Sydney | Yvonne Weldon | 14,368 | 12.1 | +12.1 | |
| Greens | Sylvie Ellsmore | 9,812 | 8.3 | +3.2 | |
| Small Business | Angela Vithoulkas | 8,177 | 8.9 | −0.8 | |
| Total formal votes | 118,511 | 98.6 | +0.2 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,675 | 1.4 | −0.2 | ||
| Turnout | 120,186 | 68.7 | +8.9 | ||
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| Team Clover | Clover Moore | 60,926 | 67.9 | ||
| Labor | Linda Scott | 28,786 | 32.1 | ||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Team Clover | 1. Clover Moore 2. Jess Scully (elected 1) 3. Robert Kok (elected 5) 4. Emelda Davis (elected 6) 5. William Chan (elected 7) 6. Adam Worling 7. Mike Galvin 8. Elaine Czulkowski 9. Philip Thalis 10. Jess Miller | 47,877 | 40.8 | −14.13 | |
| Liberal | 1. Shauna Jarrett (elected 2) 2. Lyndon Gannon (elected 8) 3. Sam Danieli 4. Phyllisse Stanton 5. Richard Hicklin 6. Ricky Lee | 20,432 | 17.4 | −2.3 | |
| Labor | 1. Linda Scott (elected 4) 2. Damien Minton 3. Norma Ingram 4. Tamira Stevensen 5. Tony Pooley 6. Meagan Lawson 7. Ian Roberts 8. Frier Bentley | 18,077 | 14.7 | +3.07 | |
| Greens | 1. Sylvie Ellsmore (elected 3) 2. Dejay Toborek 3. Caroline Alcorso 4. Chetan Sahai 5. Mark Smith | 12,972 | 11.1 | +5.12 | |
| Unite for Sydney | 1. Yvonne Weldon (elected 9) 2. Karen Freyer 3. Stephen Conlon 4. Meead Saberi Kalaee 5. Kiran De Silva 6. Mark Hodge | 10,577 | 9.0 | +9.0 | |
| Small Business | 1. Angela Vithoulkas 2. Paul Crossin 3. Tatiana Coulter 4. Phillip Joel 5. Allan Sudale 5. Lisa Jayne 7. Nicole Santer | 7,219 | 6.2 | −1.15 [lower-alpha 1] | |
| Independent | Wen Zhou | 133 | 0.1 | ||
| Independent | John McFadden | 75 | 0.1 | ||
| Total formal votes | 118,511 | 98.6 | |||
| Informal votes | 1,675 | 1.4 | |||
| Turnout | 120,186 | 68.7 | |||
| Party total seats | Seats | ± | |||
| Team Clover | 4 |  1 | |||
| Liberal | 2 |  | |||
| Labor | 1 | | |||
| Greens | 1 |  1 | |||
| Independent | 1 | 1 | |||
| Small Business | 0 | 1 | |||
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[Phelps] said she would continue to serve as an independent councillor at the City of Sydney until local government elections in September.
Liberal councillor Craig Chung has also announced he is not contesting the September elections in favour of other political opportunities
Jess Miller is retiring by running in tenth spot on their ticket.
