2024 Sydney City Council election

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2024 Sydney City Council election
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Lord Mayor
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
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Candidate Clover Moore Zann MaxwellSylvie Ellsmore
Party Team Clover Labor Greens
First preference  vote33,01815,39211,617
Percentage36.78%17.15%12.94%
SwingDecrease2.svg 6.12Increase2.svg 2.45Increase2.svg 4.64
2CP 62.90%37.10%
2CP swingDecrease2.svg 5.00Increase2.svg 5.00
 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
  Liberal Placeholder.png YvonneWeldoncropped.png SeanMasters.png
CandidateLyndon Gannon Yvonne Weldon Sean Masters
Party Liberal YWI Libertarian
First preference  vote10,8579,0383,234
Percentage12.09%10.07%3.60%
SwingDecrease2.svg 3.01Decrease2.svg 2.03Increase2.svg 3.60
Lord Mayor before election

Clover Moore
Team Clover

Subsequent Lord Mayor

Clover Moore
Team Clover

Councillors
All 9 councillors on Sydney City Council (excluding the mayor)
5 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeaderVote %Seats+/–
Team Clover Clover Moore 31.93−1
Labor Zann Maxwell19.92+1
Greens Sylvie Ellsmore16.12+1
Liberal Lyndon Gannon14.41−1
Weldon Independents Yvonne Weldon 9.210
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2024 Sydney City Council election was held on 14 September 2024 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]

Contents

Incumbent Clover Moore was re-elected to a record sixth term as Lord Mayor of Sydney. [2]

Electoral system

Like in all other New South Wales local government areas, Sydney City Council elections use optional preferential voting. Under this system, voters are only required to vote for one candidate or group, although they can choose to preference other candidates. [3]

All elections for councillor positions are elected using proportional representation. [4] Sydney is an undivided council and uses an Australian Senate-style ballot paper with above-the-line and below-the-line voting. [5]

Voting is compulsory for anyone on the New South Wales state electoral roll. [6]

Business vote removal

In New South Wales, property owners, rate-paying occupiers or lessees can apply to be on the "non-residential roll" in an LGA, as long as they are not already enrolled as a resident in that area and if they are eligible to be enrolled for state and federal elections. [7] Voting is not compulsory for those on non-residential rolls, although it is still compulsory in the LGA where they are on the residential roll. [8]

However, in 2014, then-Liberal premier Mike Baird introduced a law for that gave businesses that own, lease, or occupy rateable land in the City of Sydney two votes each. [9] Voting for businesses in Sydney also became compulsory. [10] Many critics saw the decision as an attempt by the Liberals to unseat Clover Moore as lord mayor. [11] The business vote came into effect at the 2016 election and was again in force at the 2021 election. [12] [13]

Following Labor's victory at the 2023 state election, independent MP Alex Greenwich wrote to the new local government minister, Ron Hoenig, requesting that the business vote was removed. [14]

On 13 September 2023, Hoenig formally announced that the business vote would be removed, starting at the 2024 election. [15] Eligible people will still be able to apply to be on the non-residential roll, however only one person would now be entitled to be enrolled on behalf of non-residents − the same as all other LGAs. [15]

Endorsements

GroupEndorsement
Turning Point Australia  Libertarian [16]
We Vote For Palestine  Greens [17]
  Socialist Alliance [17]

Campaign

The Libertarian Party contested Sydney City Council for the first time, choosing Sean Masters as their lord mayoral candidate. [18] The party ran on the slogan "No Moore" and called for "keeping ideology out of council". [19] [20]

Socialist Alliance campaigned on a platform of creating an "anti-racism and anti-war council" with "housing, environmental, and economic justice". [21]

Candidates

All candidates are listed in ballot paper order.

Lord Mayor

PartyCandidateBackground
  Independent Susan RitchieCo-owner of The Beacham Hotel [22]
  Team Clover Clover Moore Lord Mayor of Sydney since 2004
  Yvonne Weldon Independents Yvonne Weldon Sydney councillor since 2021
 We Love Sydney IndependentsSam Danieli Mayor of Warringah from 1996–98 [23] [24]
  Libertarian Sean MastersCreative director in advertising industry [25]
  Liberal Lyndon GannonSydney councillor since 2021 [26] [27]
  Greens Sylvie EllsmoreSydney councillor since 2021 [28]
  Socialist Alliance Rachel EvansActivist
  Independent Baiyu ChenBackground in graphic design and fashion design [29]
  Labor Zann MaxwellFormer electorate officer for Bill Shorten [30]

Councillors

Incumbent councillors are highlighted in bold text. [31] [32] [33]

Libertarian Weldon Independents Labor Liberal Greens
  1. Sean Masters
  2. Rahn Wood
  3. Clinton Mead
  4. James Hanks
  5. Rosalind Hecker
  1. Yvonne Weldon
  2. Rod Morrison
  3. Daniel McDonald
  4. Alison Davey
  5. Murray Gatt
  1. Zann Maxwell
  2. Mitch Wilson
  3. Tamira Stevenson
  4. Holly Rebeiro
  5. Michelle Perry
  6. Luc Harvey
  1. Lyndon Gannon
  2. Patrice Pandeleos
  3. Alex (Ke) Xu
  4. Bearte McDonald
  5. James Dore
  1. Sylvie Ellsmore
  2. Matthew Thompson
  3. Jay Gillieatt
  4. Caroline Alcorso
  5. Chetan Sahai
Team Clover Socialist Alliance We Love SydneyUngrouped
  1. Clover Moore
  2. Robert Kok
  3. Jess Miller
  4. Adam Worling
  5. William Chan
  6. Emelda Davis
  7. Lachlan Barker-Kennedy
  8. Jenny Burn
  9. Christine Byrne
  10. Claudia Bowman
  1. Rachel Evans
  2. Andrew Chuter
  3. Adam Haddad
  4. Coral Wynter
  5. Suelin McCauley
  6. Jim McIlroy
  1. Sam Danieli
  2. Geoffrey Alder
  3. Mirjana Andric
  4. Scott Davis
  5. Catherine Yang

Susan Ritchie (Ind)
Baiyu Chen (Ind)

Retiring councillors

Results

Lord Mayor

This section is an excerpt from 2024 New South Wales mayoral elections § Sydney.[ edit ]
2024 New South Wales mayoral elections: Sydney [35] [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Team Clover Clover Moore 33,01836.78−6.12
Labor Zann Maxwell15,39217.15+2.45
Greens Sylvie Ellsmore11,61712.94+4.64
Liberal Lyndon Gannon10,85712.09−3.01
Weldon Independents Yvonne Weldon 9,03810.07−2.03
Libertarian Sean Masters3,2343.60+3.60
We Love SydneySam Danieli3,2093.57+3.57
Independent Susan Ritchie1,7982.00+2.00
Socialist Alliance Rachel Evans9181.02+1.02
Independent Baiyu Chen6860.76+0.76
Total formal votes89,76797.71−0.89
Informal votes2,1112.29+0.89
Turnout 91,878
Two-candidate-preferred result
Team Clover Clover Moore 41,52262.90−5.00
Labor Zann Maxwell24,48937.10+5.00
Team Clover hold Swing −5.00

Councillors

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 New South Wales local elections in Inner Sydney § Sydney results.[ edit ]
2024 New South Wales local elections: Sydney [37] [38]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Team Clover 1. Clover Moore
2. Robert Kok (elected 1)
3. Jess Miller (elected 5)
4. Adam Worling (elected 6)
5. William Chan
6. Emelda Davis
7. Lachlan Barker-Kennedy
8. Jenny Burn
9. Christine Byrne
10. Claudia Bowman		28,20131.9−8.9
Labor 1. Zann Maxwell (elected 2)
2. Mitch Wilson (elected 7)
3. Tamira Stevenson
4. Holly Rebeiro
5. Michelle Perry
6. Luc Harvey		17,60519.9+5.2
Greens 1. Sylvie Ellsmore (elected 3)
2. Matthew Thompson (elected 9)
3. Jay Gillieatt
4. Caroline Alcorso
5. Chetan Sahai		14,22316.1+5.0
Liberal 1. Lyndon Gannon (elected 4)
2. Patrice Pandeleos
3. Alex (Ke) Xu
4. Bearte McDonald
5. James Dore		12,70414.4−3.0
Weldon Independents 1. Yvonne Weldon (elected 8)
2. Rod Morrison
3. Daniel McDonald
4. Alison Davey
5. Murray Gatt		8,1449.2+0.2
Libertarian 1. Sean Masters
2. Rahn Wood
3. Clinton Mead
4. James Hanks
5. Rosalind Hecker		3,6164.1+4.1
We Love Sydney Independents1. Sam Danieli
2. Geoffrey Alder
3. Mirjana Andric
4. Scott Davis
5. Catherine Yang		2,4782.8+2.8
Socialist Alliance 1. Rachel Evans
2. Andrew Chuter
3. Adam Haddad
4. Coral Wynter
5. Suelin McCauley
6. Jim McIlr		9841.1+1.1
Independent Susan Ritchie3430.4+0.4
Independent Baiyu Chen560.1+0.1
Total formal votes88,35496.0
Informal votes3,6904.0
Turnout 92,04472.87

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