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The 2024 Victorian local elections will be held in October 2024 to elect the councils of 78 of the 79 local government areas (LGAs) in Victoria, Australia. [1]
No election will be held for Moira Shire after the council was dismissed in March 2023 and a panel of administrators was appointed. [2] The next election for Moira is scheduled to be held in October 2028. [3] [4]
New councillors will be elected in Casey and Whittlesea for the first time since 2016 after the councils were dismissed in February and March 2020 respectively. [5] [6]
39 councils are set to be affected as a result of the Local Government Act 2020, which will see a large number of multi-member wards replaced with single-member wards. [7] [8]
In February 2022, Labor councillor Milad El-Halabi resigned from Moreland City Council after being charged with conspiracy to cheat and defraud for allegedly tampering with the council elections. [9] He was replaced via countback in March 2022 by Socialist Alliance's Monica Harte. [10]
On 31 March 2023, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found that El-Halabi was unduly elected. He has denied all allegations. [11]
The Greens have had five of its councillors resign from the party since the 2020 elections, and a further four seats have been lost due to resignations and deaths, reducing its total number from 36 to 28 as of July 2024.
James Conlan (Merri-bek) left the party in solidarity with senator Lidia Thorpe, Amanda Stone (Yarra) resigned in February 2023, and Anab Mohamud (Yarra) resigned in February 2024. [12]
In April 2024, both Greens councillors in Monash − Anjalee de Silva and Josh Fergeus − left the party. [13]
The Labor Party and the Greens endorse candidates for local elections in Victoria, while the Liberal Party typically does not. [14] However, local party branches often make their own endorsements. [15] [16] \
Two minor parties, the Angry Victorians Party and Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews, gained councillors in 2023 via different countbacks. [17]
A number of councillors joined or left parties before the 2024 elections, including three councillors who joined the Victorians Party before it dissolved in September 2022. [18]
Council | Ward | Councillor | Former party | New party | Date | ||
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Hepburn | Creswick | Tim Drylie | Independent | Greens | Unknown date | ||
Melbourne | Unsubdivided | Jason Chang | Team Arron Wood | Independent | 2021 | ||
Banyule | Grimshaw | Rick Garotti | Labor | Independent | 8 February 2021 | ||
Boroondara | Solway | Garry Thompson | Liberal | Independent | Mid-2021 | ||
Moreland | North-West | Oscar Yildiz | Independent | Victorians | 26 November 2021 | ||
Moreland | North-West | Milad El-Halabi | Labor | Independent Labor | 10 February 2022 | ||
Swan Hill | Central | Stuart King | Independent | United Australia | 18 February 2022 | ||
Melbourne | Unsubdivided | Philip Le Liu | Bring Back Melbourne | Victorians | 24 June 2022 | ||
Moreland | North-East | Helen Pavlidis-Mihalakos | Independent | Victorians | 24 June 2022 | ||
Melbourne | Unsubdivided | Philip Le Liu | Victorians | Bring Back Melbourne | 15 September 2022 | ||
Moreland | North-West | Oscar Yildiz | Victorians | Independent | 15 September 2022 | ||
Moreland | North-East | Helen Pavlidis-Mihalakos | Victorians | Independent | 15 September 2022 | ||
Yarra | Nicholls | Amanda Stone | Greens | Independent | 6 February 2023 | ||
Merri-bek | South | James Conlan | Greens | Independent | 7 February 2023 | ||
Stonnington | East | Joe Gianfriddo | Angry Victorians | Independent | 29 June 2023 | ||
Colac Otway | Unsubdivided | Tosh-Jake Finnigan | Sack Dan Andrews | Independent | 22 December 2023 | ||
Yarra | Langridge | Stephen Jolly | Independent Socialist | Yarra for All | February 2024 | ||
Yarra | Langridge | Michael Glynatsis | Independent | Yarra for All | February 2024 | ||
Yarra | Nicholls | Bridgid O'Brien | Independent Socialist | Yarra for All | February 2024 | ||
Yarra | Langridge | Anab Mohamud | Greens | Independent | 27 February 2024 | ||
Monash | Mount Waverley | Anjalee de Silva | Greens | Independent | 8 April 2024 | ||
Monash | Oakleigh | Josh Fergeus | Greens | Independent | 8 April 2024 |
Socialist Alliance is a socialist political party and activist organisation in Australia, founded in 2001 as an alliance of various socialist organisations and activists, initiated by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the International Socialist Organisation.
The City of Merri-bek is a local government area in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. It comprises the inner northern suburbs between 4 and 11 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD. The Merri-bek local government area covers 51 km2 (20 sq mi), and in June 2018, it had a population of 181,725.
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