2022 Hobart City Council election

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2022 Hobart City Council election
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Turnout83.02% (lord mayoral election)
Lord Mayor
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
YHI
IND
IND
Candidate Anna Reynolds Marti ZuccoLouise Elliot
Party Your Hobart Independent Independent
Popular vote9,0153,6763,593
Percentage28.78%11.73%11.47%
2CP 53.41%46.59%
Lord Mayor before election

Anna Reynolds
Your Hobart Independents

Subsequent Lord Mayor

Anna Reynolds
Your Hobart Independents

Deputy Lord Mayor
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Helen Burnet 1 (cropped).jpg
IND
YHI
Candidate Helen Burnet Simon Behrakis Mike Dutta
Party Greens Ind. Liberal Your Hobart
Popular vote8,2035,2614,557
Percentage26.38%16.92%14.65%
2CP 61.13%38.87%
Deputy before election

Helen Burnet
Greens

Subsequent Deputy

Helen Burnet
Greens

Councillors
All 12 members on the City Council
7 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader%Seats+/–
Independent N/A41.214
Your Hobart Independents Anna Reynolds 26.373
Independent Liberal N/A12.722
Greens Bill Harvey12.302
Independent Labor N/A3.311
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2022 Hobart City Council election was held in October 2022 to elect a lord mayor, deputy lord mayor and 12 councillors to the City of Hobart. The election was held as part of the statewide local elections in Tasmania, Australia. [1]

Contents

Anna Reynolds was re-elected lord mayor with 53.41% of the vote after preferences, while Helen Burnet was re-elected deputy lord mayor.

Like in all other local government areas, voting was compulsory for the first time. [2]

Candidates

Incumbent lord mayor Anna Reynolds announced in June 2022 that she would seek re-election. [3]

Former Liberal Democrats senator Duncan Spender contested the deputy lord mayoral election. [4]

Results

Lord Mayor

2022 Tasmanian mayoral elections: Hobart
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Your Hobart Independents Anna Reynolds 9,01528.78
Independent Marti Zucco3,67611.73
Independent Louise Elliot3,59311.47
Greens Bill Harvey3,48111.11
Independent Liberal Louise Bloomfield3,0259.65
Our Hobart Marcus Bai1,1763.75
Independent Liberal Will Coats1,1613.70
Total formal votes31,31797.87
Informal votes6842.13
Turnout 32,00183.02
Two-candidate-preferred result
Your Hobart Independents Anna Reynolds 14,57153.41
Independent Marti Zucco12,71146.59
Your Hobart Independents hold Swing

Deputy Lord Mayor

2022 Tasmanian deputy mayoral elections: Hobart
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Greens Helen Burnet 8,20326.38
Independent Liberal Simon Behrakis 5,26116.92
Your Hobart Independents Mike Dutta4,55714.65
Independent Jeff Briscoe4,53814.59
Independent Labor Ryan Posselt2,8169.05
Independent Damon Thomas2,3157.44
Our Hobart Ron Christie1,4534.67
Ind. Liberal Democrat Duncan Spender 1,0433.35
Independent Michael Jackson4701.51
Our Hobart Owen Davies4321.38
Total formal votes31,08897.15
Informal votes9142.85
Turnout 32,00283.02
Two-candidate-preferred result
Greens Helen Burnet 16,06861.13
Independent Liberal Simon Behrakis 10,21638.87
Greens hold Swing

Councillors

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Tasmanian local elections § Hobart.[ edit ]
2022 Tasmanian local elections: Hobart [5] [6] [7] [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Your Hobart Independents Anna Reynolds (elected)4,26613.89
Independent John Kelly (elected)4,06713.24
Independent Marti Zucco (elected)2,1507.00
Independent Louise Elliot (elected)1,8245.94
Greens Helen Burnet (elected)1,5294.98
Independent Liberal Louise Bloomfield (elected)1,4734.80
Independent Liberal Simon Behrakis (elected)1,4484.72
Your Hobart Independents Mike Dutta (elected)1,2304.01
Greens Bill Harvey (elected)1,2193.97
Independent Labor Ryan Posselt (elected)1,0163.31
Independent Ben Lohberger (elected)9363.05
Independent Jax Fox8382.73
Your Hobart Independents Zelinda Sherlock (elected)6562.14
Your Hobart Independents Kate Kelly6462.10
Independent Jeff Briscoe6051.97
Our Hobart Marcus Bai5721.86
Your Hobart Independents Brian Corr5001.63
Independent Liberal Will Coats4861.58
Independent Damon Thomas4591.49
Greens Gemma Kitsos4281.39
Your Hobart Independents Matt Etherington3731.21
Independent Steven Phipps3501.14
Greens Bec Taylor3211.05
Greens Nathan Volf2810.92
Independent Debra Thurley2700.88
Independent Edwin Johnstone2680.87
Your Hobart Independents Juniper Shaw2580.84
Independent Liberal James McKee2560.83
Our Hobart Ron Christie2410.78
Independent Yang Liu2250.73
Independent Sam Campbell2130.69
Your Hobart Independents Raj Chopra1690.55
Ind. Liberal Democrat Duncan Spender 1570.51
Independent Tiina Sexton1370.45
Our Hobart Lili Christie1310.43
Independent Liberal Daniel Geng1270.41
Independent Liberal Stefan Vogel1150.37
Independent Jono Stagg1080.35
Independent Michael Jackson990.32
Our Hobart Ling Ling Gao760.25
Independent Joe Grech720.23
Our Hobart Owen Davies420.14
Our Hobart Karen Rothery390.13
Independent Cadence Mitchell320.10
Total formal votes30,70896.70
Informal votes1,0473.30
Turnout 31,75582.38
Party total votes
Independent 12,65341.21
Your Hobart Independents 8,09826.37
Independent Liberal 3,90512.72
Greens 3,77812.30
Our Hobart 1,1013.59
Independent Labor 1,0163.31
Independent Liberal Democrat 1570.51
Party total seatsSeats±
Independent 4
Your Hobart Independents 3
Greens 2
Independent Liberal 2
Independent Labor 1

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References

  1. ↑ "Local government elections 2022". Tasmanian Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 28 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Voting in Tasmania's local council elections is now compulsory. Here's what you need to know". ABC News.
  3. ↑ "Anna Reynolds wants another term as mayor". The Mercury.
  4. ↑ "Council should stop giving away other people's money: candidate". The Mercury.
  5. ↑ "Hobart City Council". Tasmanian Electoral Commission.
  6. ↑ "Team teal: Independents join forces for election". The Mercury.
  7. ↑ "Greens Announce 5 Candidates for HCC Elections". Tasmanian Times.
  8. ↑ "Hobart City Council Elections Candidate Guide And Preview 2022". Dr Kevin Bonham.
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