| Country: | Adelaide |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2018 South Australian local elections |
| Previous Year: | 2018 |
| Next Election: | 2026 South Australian local elections |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Election Date: | 12 November 2022 |
| Candidate1: | Rex Patrick |
| Party1: | Rex Patrick Team |
| Color1: | 27B6CA |
| Popular Vote1: | 2,734 |
| Percentage1: | 31.88% |
| Swing1: | 31.88 |
| Candidate2: | Jane Lomax-Smith |
| Colour2: | DD2F27 |
| Popular Vote2: | 2,666 |
| Percentage2: | 31.08% |
| Swing2: | 31.08 |
| Party3: | Team Adelaide |
| Color3: | 1B7BF8 |
| Popular Vote3: | 2,489 |
| Percentage3: | 29.02% |
| Swing3: | 20.56 |
| 2Blank: | 2CP |
| 3Blank: | 2CP swing |
| 1Data1: | 35.11% |
| 2Data1: | 49.60% |
| 3Data1: | 49.60 |
| 1Data2: | 33.66% |
| 2Data2: | 50.40% |
| 3Data2: | 50.40 |
| 1Data3: | 31.23% |
| Lord Mayor | |
| Posttitle: | Subsequent Lord Mayor |
| Before Election: | Sandy Verschoor |
| Before Party: | Team Adelaide |
| After Election: | Jane Lomax-Smith |
| After Party: | Independent Labor |
The 2022 Adelaide City Council election was held on 12 November 2022 to elect a lord mayor and 11 councillors to the City of Adelaide. The election was held as part of the statewide local government elections in South Australia.[1]
Incumbent lord mayor Sandy Verschoor was defeated by former lord mayor Jane Lomax-Smith. The election proved to be controversial, with unsuccessful candidate and former senator Rex Patrick appealing the result after losing by 52 votes.[2]
See main article: Team Adelaide. At the November 2018 election, six candidates from Team Adelaide were successful, giving the group control of the council.[3] Successful lord mayoral candidate Sandy Verschoor was also linked to the group in media reports.[4] [5] [6]
In January 2020, Team Adelaide founder and councillor Houssam Abiad resigned. The Central Ward supplementary election in April−May 2020 was won by independent Greg Mackie, leaving Team Adelaide without a majority.[7] [8] Mackie later resigned in June 2022, claiming there was "no civility" on the council.[9]
Going into the election, the group was led by Alexander Hyde and composed of Mary Couros, Franz Knoll, Simon Hou and Arman Abrahimzadeh. Jessy Khera was also affiliated with the group, however she did not seek re-election in order to look after a terminally ill relative.[10]
Shortly after the election, Electoral Commissioner Mick Sherry announced he was investigating suspected "voting irregularities" in Central Ward, after up to 20 central ward ballots were rejected from the count, including lord mayoral votes.[11]
On 15 December 2022, unsuccessful lord mayoral candidate Rex Patrick appealed the results with a petition in the Court of Disputed Returns and requested the lord mayoral and Central Ward elections be declared invalid.[2]
In December 2023, it was revealed that vote-tallying software malfunctioned, with successful candidate Jing Li's 31-vote margin over defeated councillor Alexander Hyde in Central Ward revised to 24 votes. Hyde has requested the election be declared void and recontested, however as of January 2024, this has not occurred.[12]