Results of the 2020 Victorian local elections in Inner Melbourne

This is a list of results for the 2020 Victorian local elections in the Inner Melbourne region.[1]

2020 Victorian local elections
(Inner Melbourne)

← 2016 24 October 2020 2024 →

Inner Melbourne covers three local government areas (LGAs) − Melbourne City Council, Port Phillip City Council, and Yarra City Council.

Melbourne

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Leadership Team

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2020 Victorian local elections: Melbourne (Leadership Team)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Team Sally Capp Sally Capp
Nicholas Reece
27,949 31.60 +6.22
Greens Apsara Sabaratnam
Roxane Ingleton
14,753 16.68 −4.59
Team Arron Wood Arron Wood
Lisa Teh
13,497 15.26 +15.26
Bring Back Melbourne Nick Russian
Michael Burge
8,975 10.15 +10.15
Labor Phil Reed
Wesa Chau
8,355 9.45 +9.45
Back To Business Jennifer Yang
Sandra Gee
8,219 9.29 +9.29
Victorian Socialists Kath Larkin
Daniel Nair Dadich
2,911 3.29 +3.29
Morgan-Watts Team Gary Morgan
Mary-Lou Howie
2,446 2.77 −4.02
Team Zorin Wayne Tseng
Gricol Yang
1,329 1.50 +1.50
Total formal votes 88,434 96.62 +0.22
Informal votes 3,096 3.38 −0.22
Two-candidate-preferred result
Team Sally Capp Sally Capp
Nicholas Reece
47,256 53.44 +0.39
Team Arron Wood Arron Wood
Lisa Teh
41,178 46.56 +46.56
Team Sally Capp hold Swing N/A

Councillors

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2020 Victorian local elections: Melbourne (councillors)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Team Sally Capp 1. Kevin Louey (elected 1)
2. Roshena Campbell (elected 5)
3. Mark David McMillan
4. Tania Davidge
5. James Young
6. Tina Kuek
24,395 26.73 +26.73
Greens 1. Rohan Leppert (elected 2)
2. Olivia Ball (elected 6)
3. Emily Corcoran
4. David Jeffery
5. Nakita Thomson
6. Charlotte George
14,602 16.00 −4.16
Team Arron Wood 1. Jason Chang (elected 3)
2. Peter Clarke
3. Beverley Frances Pinder
4. Abdirahman I. Ali
5. Beverley Honig
12,187 13.35 +13.35
Labor 1. Davydd Griffiths (elected 4)
2. Mary Delahunty
3. Hamdi Ali
10,626 11.64 +11.64
Bring Back Melbourne 1. Philip Le Liu (elected 7)
2. Serena Lu Jiang
3. Lauren Sherson
4. Darin Schade
6,683 7.32 −1.77
Back To Business 1. Elizabeth Mary Doidge (elected 9)
2. Charles Pick
3. Moti Visa
4. Bedri Sainovski
6,572 7.18 +7.18
Liberal Democrats 1. Paul Silverberg
2. Faith Newman
5,064 5.55 +5.55
Morgan-Watts Team 1. Jackie Watts
2. Michael Kennedy
3. Haya Aldaghlas
4. Dashi Zhang
1,541 1.69 −3.22
Victorian Socialists 1. Christopher di Pasquale
2. Jesse Lambourn
1,441 1.58 +1.58
Sustainable Australia 1. Richard Belcher
2. Bettina Terry
1,361 1.49 +1.49
Animal Justice 1. Rabin Bangaar
2. Rod Whitfield
1,251 1.37 −1.07
Residents First 1. Janette Corcoran
2. Mary Masters
3. Samantha Tran
1,110 1.21 +1.21
Innovate Melbourne 1. Andrew Rowse
2. John Daniell
817 0.89 +0.89
Team Hakim 1. Jamal Hakim (elected 8)
2. Safaa Hakim
379 0.41 +0.41
Melbourne - We All Matter 1. Sainab Sheikh
2. Fatuma Ali
374 0.41 +0.41
Artemis Pattichi - Independent Local Voice 1. Artemis Pattichi
2. Adriana Mendieta Nino
351 0.38 +0.38
Ungrouped Scott Robson
Luke Downing
Philip Jonathan Bateman
Andrew Ward
332 0.36 +0.10
Your Melbourne Team Get It Done 1. Mary Poulakis
2. Fiona Sweetman
291 0.32 +0.32
It Will Be Okay Melbourne 1. Joseph Burke
2. Michael Mach
203 0.22 +0.22
Total formal votes 88,434 96.62 −1.42
Informal votes 1,686 3.38 +1.42
Turnout 91,531 66.73 +11.54

Port Phillip

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2020 Port Phillip City Council election
 
← 2016 24 October 2020 2024 →

All 9 seats on Port Phillip City Council
5 seats needed for a majority
Registered88,268
Turnout65.73% (  17.13)
  First party Second party
     
Party Labor Greens
Last election 2 seats 2 seats
Seats before 2 2
Seats won 2 2
Seat change    
First preference vote 13,228 11,881
Percentage 23.72% 21.31%

  Third party Fourth party
 
IND
RoPP
Party Ind. Liberal Ratepayers
Last election 2 seats Did not exist
Seats before 2 0
Seats won 2 2
Seat change     2
First preference vote 11,353 8,279
Percentage 20.36% 14.85%

Largest party before election

No overall control

Subsequent largest party

No overall control

Port Phillip City Council is composed of three multi-member wards, each electing three councillors.

Port Phillip results

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2020 Victorian local elections: Port Phillip[3][4]
Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Labor 13,228 23.72 2  
  Greens 11,881 21.31 2  
  Independent Liberal 11,353 20.36 2  
  Ratepayers of Port Phillip 8,279 14.85 +14.85 2   2
  Independent 8,068 14.47 1  
  Sustainable Australia 1,559 2.79 0  
  Ind. Ratepayers of Port Phillip 482 0.86 +0.86 0  
 Formal votes 55,752 96.09 +4.12
 Informal votes 2,269 3.91 −4.12
 Total 58,021 100.0
 Registered voters / turnout 88,268 65.73 +17.13

Canal

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2020 Victorian local elections: Canal Ward[5][6][7][8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Louise Crawford (elected 1) 4,637 23.30 +10.54
Labor Dick Gross 3,001 15.08 +0.09
Greens Tim Baxter (elected 3) 2,733 13.73 −12.14
Ratepayers of Port Phillip Rhonda Clark[a] (elected 2) 2,144 10.77 +10.77
Independent Liberal Jo McDonald 1,834 9.22 +9.22
Independent Liberal Warwick Cahir 1,527 7.67 +7.67
Greens Maddy Blay 1,444 7.26 +7.26
Independent Lesley G. Pianella 1,023 5.14 +5.14
Sustainable Australia Dennis Bilic 798 4.01 +4.01
Sustainable Australia Steven Armstrong 761 3.82 +0.02
Total formal votes 19,902 95.67
Informal votes 901 4.33
Turnout 20,803 69.85

Gateway

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2020 Victorian local elections: Gateway Ward[11][12][13][14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal Marcus Pearl (elected 1) 4,134 21.81 +1.07
Independent Heather Cunsolo (elected 2) 3,858 20.36 +20.36
Labor Peter Martin (elected 3) 2,716 14.33 +14.33
Ratepayers of Port Phillip Sami Maher 2,442 12.89 +12.89
Greens Earl James 2,285 12.06 +9.73
Independent Stan Gyles 1,219 6.43 +6.43
Independent Trina Lewis 1,168 6.16 +6.16
Independent Cleo Papageorgiou 1,130 5.96 +5.96
Total formal votes 18,952 96.52
Informal votes 684 3.48
Turnout 19,636 69.98

Lake

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2020 Victorian local elections: Lake Ward[15][16][17][18][19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Greens Katherine Copsey 5,419 26.77 +0.18
Independent Liberal Andrew Bond 3,858 20.36 +3.03
Ratepayers of Port Phillip Christina Sirakoff 3,693 18.25 +18.25
Labor Robbie Nyaguy 2,874 14.20 +14.20
Independent Geoffrey Conaghan 1,436 7.09 +7.09
Independent Bernard Mandile 1,322 6.53 +6.53
Independent Roger Ward 770 3.80 +3.80
Ind. Ratepayers Adrian Jackson 482 2.38 +2.38
Total formal votes 20,241 96.65
Informal votes 702 3.35
Turnout 20,943 68.83

Yarra

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2020 Yarra City Council election
 
← 2016 24 October 2020 2024 →

All 9 seats on Yarra City Council
5 seats needed for a majority
Registered78,795
Turnout70.14% (  18.99)
  First party Second party
 
IND
 
Party Independents Greens
Last election 2 seats 4 seats
Seats before 3 2
Seats won 2 5
Seat change   1   3
First preference vote 15,081 13,909
Percentage 28.78% 26.54%

  Third party Fourth party
   
IND
Party Labor Ind. Socialist
Last election 2 seats 0 seats
Seats before 2 2
Seats won 0 2
Seat change   2  
First preference vote 7,501 7,380
Percentage 14.31% 14.08%

Largest party before election

Independents

Subsequent largest party

Greens

Yarra City Council is composed of three multi-member wards, each electing three councillors.[20]

All five Greens candidates were elected, giving the party a majority − the first time the party had won a majority on any council in Victoria.[21] Two independents and two Independent Socialist candidates were also elected.[22][23]

The Labor Party endorsed five candidates, including Rowan Payne, who replaced Alicia Carr as one of two candidates in Langridge Ward after she withdrew for family reasons.[24][25] However, they were unable to win any seats, marking the first time since the council's first election in 1996 that Labor had been without elected representation in Yarra.[26]

The Reason Party endorsed three candidates, while the Liberal Democratic Party and Animal Justice Party had one candidate each.[27] A local group, Richmond First, had two candidates in Melba Ward.[28]

Yarra results

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2020 Victorian local elections: Yarra[29][30]
Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Independent 15,081 28.78 2  
  Greens 13,909 26.54 5   1
  Labor 7,501 14.31 0   2
  Independent Socialist 7,380 14.08 2   2
  Reason 2,609 4.99 0  
  Independent Liberal 2,217 4.23 +4.23 0  
  Richmond First 1,897 3.62 +3.62 0  
  Liberal Democrats 1,282 2.45 0  
  Animal Justice 524 1.00 0  
 Formal votes 52,400 94.81 +2.86
 Informal votes 2,872 5.19 −2.86
 Total 55,272 100.0 9
 Registered voters / turnout 78,795 70.14 +18.99

Langridge

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2020 Victorian local elections: Langridge Ward[31][32][33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Socialist Stephen Jolly (elected 1) 4,836 26.07 −4.99[b]
Greens Anab Mohamud (elected 2) 3,216 17.34 +17.34
Greens Gabrielle de Vietri (elected 3) 2,206 11.89 +11.89
Labor Karen Douglas 1,823 9.83 +9.83
Independent Liberal James Bae 1,725 9.30 +9.30
Independent Michael Glynatsis 1,503 8.10 +8.10
Reason Jeremy Cowen 1,311 7.07 +7.07
Independent Hai Tran 781 4.21 −3.28
Independent Matoc Mordecai Achol 450 2.43 −4.11[c]
Independent Peter Hude 432 2.33 +2.33
Labor Rowan Payne 267 1.44 +1.44
Total formal votes 18,550 95.78 +4.14
Informal votes 817 4.22 −4.14
Turnout 19,367 68.96 +19.06

Melba

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2020 Victorian local elections: Melba Ward[37]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Greens Edward Crossland (elected 1) 2,866 16.82 −7.67
Independent Claudia Nguyen (elected 2) 2,094 12.29 +12.29
Labor Sandeep Sarathy 1,825 10.71 −8.44
Independent Herschel Landes (elected 3) 1,437 8.43 −2.36
Liberal Democrats Matthew Ford 1,282 7.52 +7.52
Independent Meca Ho 1,207 7.08 +7.08
Independent Sarah Witty 1,066 6.26 +6.26
Richmond First Dora Tsipouras 968 5.68 +5.68
Richmond First David Horseman 929 5.45 +5.45
Independent Katarina Radonic 788 4.62 +4.62
Independent Mitchell Price 562 3.30 +3.30
Labor Julie Bignell 556 3.26 +3.26
Reason Penelope Drummond 523 3.07 +3.07
Independent Liberal Kate Drake 492 2.89 −1.02
Independent Don Ash 444 2.61 +2.61
Total formal votes 17,039 93.30 +2.84
Informal votes 1,223 6.70 −2.84
Turnout 18,262 69.79 +18.78

Nicholls

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2020 Victorian local elections: Nicholls Ward[38][39][40]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Greens Amanda Stone (elected 3) 2,937 17.47 −5.82
Greens Sophie Wade (elected 2) 2,684 15.97 −2.01
Independent Socialist Bridgid O'Brien (elected 1) 2,544 15.13 +10.22[b]
Labor Annabelle Wilson 1,958 11.65 +11.65
Independent Gerald Fisher 1,545 9.19 +9.19
Independent Sasha Beitner 1,356 8.07 +8.07
Labor Debra Thorpe 1,072 6.38 +6.38
Independent Catherine Noone 944 5.62 +5.62
Reason Guy Ewan Barker 775 4.61 +4.61
Animal Justice Amber Anderson 524 3.12 +3.12
Independent Em Sage 472 2.81 +2.81
Total formal votes 16,811 95.28 +1.49
Informal votes 832 4.72 −1.49
Turnout 17,643 71.89 +19.21

Notes

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  1. ^ Also a Liberal Party member.[10]
  2. ^ a b Compared to results as a Socialists candidate at the 2016 election.[34]
  3. ^ Compared to results as a Greens candidate at the 2016 election.[35][36]

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