2024 Melbourne City Council election

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2024 Melbourne City Council election
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Leadership Team
Turnout67.73% (Increase2.svg 1.00)
  Nicholas Reece.jpg
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Candidate Nicholas Reece Roxane IngletonMariam Riza
Party Team Nick Reece Greens Liberal
Running mate Roshena Campbell Marley McRae McLeodLuke Martin
First preference  vote20,52312,44511,985
Percentage23.36%14.17%13.64%
2CP 61.49%38.51%
2CP swingIncrease2.svg 8.05Increase2.svg 38.51
  Anthony Koutoufides.png ArronWood.png PhilReed.png
Candidate Anthony Koutoufides Arron Wood Phil Reed
Party Team Kouta Team Wood Labor
Running mateIntaj Khan Erin Deering Virginia Wills
First preference  vote11,3458,8565,930
Percentage12.91%10.08%6.75%
Lord Mayor before election

Nicholas Reece
Team Nick Reece

Elected Lord Mayor

Nicholas Reece
Team Nick Reece

The 2024 Melbourne City Council election was held on 26 October 2024 to elect nine councillors and a leadership team (consisting of a lord mayor and deputy lord mayor) to the City of Melbourne. The election was held as part of the statewide local government elections in Victoria, Australia. [1]

Contents

Incumbent lord mayor Nicholas Reece, who succeeded Sally Capp after her resignation in July 2024, was re-elected with 61.5% of the two-candidate-preferred vote. Arron Wood, who was seen as a frontrunner going into the election, conceded defeat on 29 October. [2]

Background

Party defections

On 24 June 2022, Bring Back Melbourne councillor Philip Le Liu left the Liberal Party to join the Victorians Party and contest the 2022 Victorian state election. [3] However, the party disbanded on 13 August 2022 before the election was held. [4] [5]

Rohan Leppert trans comments

In March 2022, Greens councillor Rohan Leppert made comments in a private Facebook group about the Andrews state government's gay conversion therapy laws. [6] After the comments were leaked, some Greens members labelled him transphobic and called for him to be expelled from the party. [7]

On 6 April 2022, the Victorian Greens released a statement "in light of recent commentary by Leppert", saying the party "reject[s] any suggestion that trans rights should be up for debate". [8] [9] Leppert described the party's statement as "highly tendentious and false". [10]

Leppert chose in March 2024 not to seek re-election after three terms as a councillor. [11]

Sally Capp resignation

On 28 March 2024, then-Lord Mayor Sally Capp announced that she would resign before the re-election. [12] She resigned as Lord Mayor on 1 July 2024, and was replaced by Deputy Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece. [13] [14]

Electoral system

The leadership team is elected using Instant-runoff voting, with each team running as a single unit.

Like in state and federal elections, the leadership team election uses full preferential voting, meaning voters must number every team that is running. [15]

The councillors are elected using single transferable voting, using the city as a single at-large district. [16]

For the councillor election, group voting tickets (GVT) are used − a group registers a GVT before an election, and when a voter selects a group above-the-line on the ballot paper, their vote is distributed according to the registered GVT for that group. [17] Alternatively, a voter can number all boxes for individual candidates below-the-line. [15]

Individual candidates are not able to contest both the leadership team election and the councillor election. [18] The leadership team election is separate from the election of councillors. This means that even if a group's leadership team candidates are unsuccessful, members of their councillor ticket can still be elected. [18]

Business vote

Businesses are given two votes in Melbourne City Council elections, the only LGA in Victoria where this is the case. [18] Property investors and business owners do not have to be Australian citizens to vote. [18] [19]

At the 2020 election, the Melbourne City Council electoral roll was composed of 55.1% business and out-of-the-area property owners, with local residents making up the remaining 44.9%. [18]

A similar electoral system in New South Wales previously applied for Sydney City Council, where businesses also had two votes. [20] This was introduced in 2014 but abolished in 2023 ahead of the 2024 election. [21] [22]

Campaign

The Labor Party officially launched their campaign on 28 August 2024, with Phil Reed as their lord mayoral candidate for the second election in a row and Virginia Wills as the deputy candidate. [23]

Regent Theatre sale

On 8 September 2024, Reece announced he wanted Melbourne City Council to sell its 51% share of the Regent Theatre if he was re-elected. [24] An urgent motion at a council meeting was tabled by councillor Jamal Hakim noting that council has "no intention or policy basis to sell the Regent theatre" was passed several days later with six votes in favour. [25]

The proposal to sell Regent Theatre has been opposed by Team Wood, Team Hakim and Labor. [26] [27]

Candidates

After being sworn in as Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Reece confirmed he would seek re-election, although he would not be running as an endorsed Labor Party candidate. [28] He announced incumbent councillor Roshena Campbell, a Liberal Party member, as his running mate on 28 July. [29]

The Victorian Liberal Party endorsed candidates for the first time in the party's history. [30]

In February 2024, former senator Derryn Hinch announced he would run for Lord Mayor of Melbourne. However, one month later he withdrew, citing the costs of running a campaign. [31]

First-term councillor Jamal Hakim announced his candidacy on 2 August, with Australian Republic Movement co-chair Esther Anatolitis as his running mate.

Leadership Team

PartyCandidatesBackground
  Labor Phil Reed2020 Labor lord mayoral candidate
Virginia Wills
  Liberal Mariam Riza
Luke Martin
  Greens Roxane Ingleton [32]
Marley McRae McLeod
  Animal Justice Eylem KimResearcher and PhD candidate
Bruce Poon Animal Justice Party president
  Team Hakim Jamal HakimCouncillor since 2020
Esther AnatolitisCo-chair of the Australian Republic Movement [33]
  Team Kouta Anthony Koutoufides Former Carlton AFL player
Intaj KhanDeveloper
  Team Morgan Gary MorganPollster and perennial candidate [34]
Liz Ge
  Team Nick Reece Nicholas Reece Lord Mayor since 2024
Roshena Campbell Councillor since 2020
  Rip Up the Bike Lanes! Anthony van der Craats
David Keith Cragg
  Voices for Melbourne Greg Bisinella
Megan Stevenson
  Team Wood Arron Wood 2020 lord mayoral candidate
Erin Deering Entrepreneur and fashion designer [35]

Councillors

Incumbent councillors are highlighted in bold text. [3]

Greens
  1. Olivia Ball [36]
  2. Karl Hessian [11]

Retiring councillors

Results

Leadership Team

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Victorian local elections in Inner Melbourne § Leadership Team.[ edit ]
2024 Victorian local elections: Melbourne (Leadership Team) [37]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Team Nick Reece Nick Reece [a]
Roshena Campbell [b] 		20,52323.36−8.24 [c]
Greens Roxane Ingleton
Marley McRae McLeod		12,44514.17−2.51
Liberal Mariam Riza
Luke Martin		11,98513.64+13.64
Team Kouta Anthony Koutoufides
Intaj Khan [b] 		11,34512.91+12.91
Team Wood Arron Wood
Erin Deering 		8,85610.08−5.18
Labor Phil Reed
Virginia Wills		5,9306.75−2.70
Team Morgan Gary Morgan
Liz Ge		4,2814.87+2.10
Team Hakim Jamal Hakim
Esther Anatolitis		3,7664.29+4.29
Rip Up the Bike Lanes! Anthony van der Craats [a]
David Keith Cragg		3,7064.22+4.22
Voices for Melbourne Greg Bisinella
Megan Stevenson		3,0793.50+3.50
Animal Justice Eylem Kim
Bruce Poon		1,9362.20+2.20
Total formal votes87,85295.02−1.60
Informal votes4,6034.98+1.60
Turnout 92,45567.73+1.00
Two-candidate-preferred result
Team Nick Reece Nick Reece [a]
Roshena Campbell [b] 		54,01861.49+8.05 [d]
Greens Roxane Ingleton
Marley McRae McLeod		33,83438.51+38.51
Team Nick Reece hold Swing N/A

Councillors

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Victorian local elections in Inner Melbourne § Councillors.[ edit ]
2024 Victorian local elections: Melbourne (councillors) [44]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Team Nick Reece 1. Kevin Louey (elected 1)
2. Mark Scott (elected 6)
3. Lisa Teh
4. Jannine Pattison
5. Hamdi Ali
6. Suzanne Stanley
7. Simone Hartley-Keane		18,55820.71–6.02 [e]
Liberal 1. Owen Guest (elected 2)
2. You Li Liston		12,84114.33+14.33
Greens 1. Olivia Ball (elected 3)
2. Aaron Moon
3. Barry Berih		12,69214.16–1.84
Team Kouta 1. Gladys Liu [b] (elected 4)
2. Zaim Ramani
3. Emma Elizabeth Carney
4. Olivia Tjandramulia 		10,58811.82+11.82
Team Wood 1. Philip Le Liu (elected 5)
2. Cathy Oke
3. Nicolas Paul Zervos
4. Hala Nur
5. Michael-Lee Caiafa
6. Hope Lai Wei
7. Steve Michelson		9,36610.45–2.90
Labor 1. Davydd Griffiths (elected 9)
2. Sainab Abdi Sheikh
3. Michael Aleisi		6,4947.25–4.39
Team Morgan 1. Rafael Camillo (elected 7)
2. William Caldwell		3,6544.08+2.39
Rip Up the Bike Lanes! 1. Sandra Gee
2. Pratap Singh		2,8783.21+3.21
Team Hakim 1. Michael Smith
2. Lawrence Lam
3. Judy Gao		2,8133.14+2.73
Voices for Melbourne 1. Mary Masters
2. James Vasilev-Robertson		2,6893.00+3.00
Animal Justice 1. Aashna Katyal
2. Rabin Bangaar		1,6881.88+0.19
Innovate Melbourne 1. Andrew Rowse (elected 8)
2. Jesse Greenwood		1,5471.73+0.84
Your Voice Matters to Me 1. Krystle Mitchell [f]
2. Jayden Durbin		1,1341.27+1.27
Team Elvis Martin 1. Elvis Martin
2. Sophy Galbally
3. Mavi Mujral
4. Jing Lin
5. Paul James Moore
6. Melissa Rymer
7. James Cullen
8. Carole Kenny-Sarasa		1,0001.12+1.12
Victorian Socialists 1. Daniel Nair Dadich
2. Ben Fok		5000.56–1.02
Team Participate 1. Asako Saito
2. Sam Janda		4610.51+0.51
UngroupedE. Send
Jake Land
Aishwarya Kansakar
Mohamed Yusuf
Callum John French		7030.78+0.42
Total formal votes89,60697.67–0.48
Informal votes2,1392.33+0.48
Turnout 91,74567.21+0.67

Debates and forums

PParticipant
AAbsent
NNon-invitee
UUnknown if attended

List of debates and forums

DateHostParticipants
RIP AJP HAK NICK MOR KOU LIB WOO GRN VFM ALP
23 September 2024Community3008 [45] UUUUUUUUUUU
25 September 2024Future Forte [46] AAPPAAAPPPP
30 September 2024YIMBY Melbourne/Housing All Australians/6 News [47] [48] [49] AAPPAPPPPPP
3 October 2024Residents 3000 [50] PPPPPPPPPPP
6 October 2024Melbourne South Yarra Residents Group [51] PPPPPPPPPPP
9 October 2024 Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry [52] [53] ANPPPPNPNAP
10 October 2024 ABC Radio Melbourne [54] NNNPNPNPPNN
10 October 2024Southbank Residents Association [55] [56] PPPPPPPPPPP
15 October 2024Carlton Residents Association [57] UUUUUUUUUUU
16 October 2024 Chinatown Precinct Association [58] AAPPAPPPAPP
22 October 2024 Nine News Melbourne [59] [60] [61] NNNPNPNPPNN

Endorsements

GroupEndorsement
Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry   Team Wood [62]
The Age  No endorsement [63]

How-to-vote cards

For the leadership team election, candidates can provide how-to-vote cards with recommendations for voters on preferences. Unlike for the councillor election, which uses group voting tickets, the preference recommendations are non-binding.

Leadership Team

PartyHow-to-vote card (read column from top down for order)
RIP AJP HAK NICK MOR KOU LIB WOO GRN VFM ALP
  Rip Up the Bike Lanes! [64] 11011115569111111
  Animal Justice 2131097106364
  Team Hakim [65] 321710874223
  Team Nick Reece [66] 4710133310797
  Team Morgan 5982124119710
  Team Kouta [67] 6893212810109
  Liberal 711754415888
  Team Wood [68] 846961081655
  Greens [69] 93461111117136
  Voices for Melbourne 106287652412
  Labor [70] [71] 115548993541

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Also a Labor Party member. [38] [39] [40] [41] [42]
  2. 1 2 3 4 Also a Liberal Party member. [38]
  3. ↑ Compared with Team Sally Capp at the 2020 election. [43]
  4. ↑ Compared with Team Sally Capp at the 2020 election. [43]
  5. ↑ Compared with Team Sally Capp at the 2020 election. [43]
  6. ↑ Also a Libertarian Party member. [38]

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