| Election Name: | City of Greater Geelong Mayoral By-Election, 2013 |
| Type: | Presidential |
| Previous Election: | 2012 Geelong mayoral election |
| Previous Year: | 2012 |
| Next Election: | 2016 Geelong mayoral election |
| Next Year: | 2017 |
| Election Date: | 24 November 2013 |
| Turnout: | 78.26% [1] |
| Candidate1: | Darryn Lyons |
| Party1: | Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) |
| Popular Vote1: | 38,406 |
| Percentage1: | 29.79% |
| Candidate2: | Stephanie Asher |
| Party2: | Independent (politician) |
| Popular Vote2: | 18,606 |
| Percentage2: | 14.43% |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Keith Fagg |
| Before Party: | Independent (politician) |
| After Election: | Darryn Lyons |
| After Party: | Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) |
A by-election for the City of Greater Geelong mayor occurred on 24 November 2013. This by-election was triggered by the resignation of Geelong's first directly elected mayor Keith Fagg and saw Darryn Lyons of the Liberal Party become Geelong's second directly elected mayor with a first-preference vote of 29.79%. Lyons' nearest rival, Stephanie Asher, achieved a primary vote of 14.43%.
Geelong's first directly elected mayor, Keith Fagg, resigned from his position in August 2013, just over a year following his election, citing health reasons.[2]
Over the course of the mayoral campaign, the local media focused heavily on Darryn Lyons and former mayor Ken Jarvis.
On 6 November, the Geelong Advertiser hosted a Mayoral candidate forum with a crowd of over 600 people, and Ken Jarvis won the exit poll which was taken by 200 people.[3]
Controversy arose when Geelong businessman Frank Costa publicly backed Jarvis; stating that the "state government wouldn't muck around" and that it "may intervene and sack the council if Ken Jarvis isn't elected".[4] The next day, however, Victorian Premier Denis Napthine, along with Costa, denied claims that the council would be sacked.[5] [6]
A total of 16 candidates ran in this election.:
| Candidate nominations | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Lily Stefanovic | |||
| Independent | Stephen Yewdall | |||
| Independent | Greg Jones | |||
| Independent | Stephanie Asher | |||
| Liberal | Darryn Lyons | |||
| Victorian Greens | Greg Lacey | |||
| Labor | John Mitchell | Former Mayor of Geelong. | ||
| Liberal | Kenneth Edward Jarvis | Former Mayor of Geelong. | ||
| Independent | Margarette Lewis | |||
| Independent | Tom O'Conner | |||
| Independent | Anthony Aitken | |||
| Independent | John Smith | |||
| Independent | Rodger Marsden | |||
| Liberal | Angelo Kakouros | |||
| Independent | John Robert Irvine | Current councillor representing Geelong's Austin Ward. | ||
| Independent | Doug Mann | |||