2020 Melbourne City Council election explained
| Country: | Melbourne |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Vote Type: | First preference |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2016 Melbourne City Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2016 |
| Next Election: | 2024 Melbourne City Council election |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Module: | | Election Name: | Leadership team | | Embed: | yes | | Votes For Election: | Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne
All 9 seats on the City of Melbourne | | Colour1: | 008080 | | Candidate1: | Sally Capp | | Colour2: | 11C25C | | Candidate2: | Apsara Sabaratnam | | Colour3: | 1E90FF | | 1Blank: | Deputy candidate | | 1Data1: | Nicholas Reece | | 1Data2: | Roxane Ingleton | | 1Data3: | Lisa Teh | | 2Blank: | Party | | 2Data1: | Team Sally Capp | | 2Data2: | Greens | | 3Blank: | Popular vote | | 3Data1: | 27,949 | | 3Data2: | 14,753 | | 3Data3: | 13,497 | | 4Blank: | Percentage | | 4Data1: | 31.60% | | 4Data2: | 16.68% | | 4Data3: | 15.26% | | 5Blank: | 2CP | | 5Data1: | 53.44% | | 5Data3: | 46.56% | | Lord Mayor | | Before Election: | Sally Capp | | Before Party: | Team Sally Capp | | Posttitle: | Elected Lord Mayor | | After Election: | Sally Capp | | After Party: | Team Sally Capp | | Module: | | Election Name: | Councillors | | Embed: | yes | | Seats For Election: | All 9 seats in the Melbourne City Council | | Majority Seats: | 5 | | Leader1: | — | | Party1: | Independents | | Last Election1: | 7 | | Seats1: | 6 | | Percentage1: | 60.57 | | Leader2: | Rohan Leppert | | Party2: | Greens | | Last Election2: | 2 | | Seats2: | 2 | | Percentage2: | 16.00 | | Leader3: | Davydd Griffiths | | Party3: | Labor | | Last Election3: | 0 | | Seats3: | 1 | | Percentage3: | 11.64 |
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The 2020 Melbourne City Council election was held in October 2020 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.
Incumbent lord mayor Sally Capp, who was first elected at a 2018 by-election, won a second term, defeating incumbent deputy lord mayor Arron Wood.
Results
Councillor election
Key dates
Key dates in relation to the election are:[1]
- Thursday, 28 August 2020 – Close of electoral rolls (4pm)
- Tuesday, 22 September 2020 – Close of nominations (12 noon)
- Tuesday, 6 October 2020 – Mail out of postal ballots commences
- Friday, 23 October 2020 – Close of voting (6pm)
- Friday, 30 October 2020 – Last day for receipt of postal votes (12 noon)
- Friday, 13 November 2020 – Declaration of result
Candidates
A total of 77 candidates nominated for the election, an increase of 19 from 2016.
18 candidates ran for the Leadership Team positions of Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor running on 9 tickets, up from 14 candidates on 7 tickets in 2016.
59 candidates nominated for councillor positions, up from 44 in 2016.[2]
Leadership Team
Incumbent Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour.
| Socialists | Bring Back Melbourne | Team Zorin | Labor | Greens |
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| valign=top | Kath Larkin
Daniel Nair Dadich | valign=top | Nick Russian
Michael Burge | valign=top | Wayne Tseng
Gricol Yang | valign=top | Phil Reed
Wesa Chau | valign=top | Apsara Sabaratnam
Roxane Ingleton |
| Team Arron Wood | Team Sally Capp | Back To Business | Morgan-Watts Team |
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| valign=top | Arron Wood
Lisa Teh | valign=top style="background:#ACDCDC" | Sally Capp
Nicholas Reece | valign=top | Jennifer Yang
Sandra Gee | valign=top | Gary Morgan
Mary-Lou Howie | |
Councillors
Incumbent councillors are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one councillor are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).
| Labor | Bring Back Melbourne | Team Arron Wood | Your Melbourne Team Get It Done | Sustainable Australia | Team Hakim |
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| valign=top | - Davydd Griffiths*
- Mary Delahunty
- Hamdi Ali
| valign=top style="background:#BFA588" | - Elizabeth Mary Doidge*
- Charles Pick
- Moti Visa
- Bedri Sainovski
| valign=top | - Jason Chang*
- Peter Clarke
- Beverley Frances Pinder
- Abdirahman I. Ali
- Beverley Honig
| valign=top | - Mary Poulakis
- Fiona Sweetman
| valign=top | - Richard Belcher
- Bettina Terry
| valign=top style="background:#FFF2AE" | - Jamal Hakim*
- Safaa Hakim
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| Team Sally Capp | Animal Justice | Artemis Pattichi - Independent Local Voice | Liberal Democrats | Residents First | Melbourne - We All Matter |
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| valign=top style="background:#ACDCDC" | - Kevin Louey*
- Roshena Campbell
- Tania Davidge
- James Young
- Tina Kuek
| valign=top | - Rabin Bangaar
- Rod Whitfield
| valign=top | - Artemis Pattichi
- Adriana Mendieta Nino
| valign=top | - Paul Silverberg
- Faith Newman
| valign=top | - Janette Corcoran
- Mary Masters
- Samantha Tran
| valign=top | - Sainab Sheikh
- Fatuma Ali
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| Innovate Melbourne - Startup The City | Morgan-Watts Team | Bring Back Melbourne | Greens | Socialists | It Will Be Okay Melbourne |
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| valign=top | - Andrew Rowse
- John Daniell
| valign=top | - Jackie Watts
- Michael Kennedy
- Haya Aldaghlas
- Dashi Zhang
| valign=top | - Philip Le Liu*
- Serena Lu Jiang
- Lauren Sherson
- Darin Schade
| valign=top | - Rohan Leppert*
- Olivia Ball
- David Jeffery
- Nakita Thomson
- Charlotte George
| valign=top | - Christopher di Pasquale
- Jesse Lambourn
| valign=top | - Joseph Burke
- Michael Mach
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| Ungrouped |
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| valign=top | Scott Robson (Ind)
Luke Downing (Ind)
Philip Jonathan Bateman (Ind)
Andrew Ward (Ind) | |
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Key dates for prospective candidates . Melbourne City Council . 9 September 2020 . 12 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200812000647/https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/about-council/governance-transparency/elections/Pages/key-dates.aspx . dead .
- Web site: Melbourne City Council / Nominations . Victorian Electoral Commission . 30 September 2020 . 20 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201020120659/https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/voting/2020-local-council-election/elections/melbourne-city-council/nominations . dead .
