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Mayor & councillors

Mayor & councillors

Manningham has 9 councillors, one for each ward: Bolin, Currawong, Manna, Ruffey, Schramm, Tullamore, Waldau, Westerfolds and Yarra. They were elected in October 2024 for the 2024–2028 term. Voters don't elect the Mayor directly: the councillors choose one of themselves for a one-year term at the Annual Meeting of Council. The next one is on Thursday 5 November 2026.

New to these terms? Read them in plain English
How the mayor is chosen
Either elected directly by voters, or chosen by the councillors.
Ward
A subdivision of a council area that elects its own councillors.
Local Government Area (LGA)
The official area a council governs.
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Who represents you

Mayor
Cr Jim Grivas (Ruffey Ward)Elected Mayor unanimously by the councillors at the Annual Meeting of Council on Thursday 6 November 2025, for the coming year (council news item, 7 November 2025). He was previously Mayor in 2013/14.
Deputy Mayor
Cr Deirdre Diamante (Tullamore Ward)Elected Deputy Mayor at the same meeting. She was Mayor in 2024–25.
Councillors
9 — one per wardMatches the Victorian Electoral Commission's list of current councillors and the state's council contacts list (both checked Sep 2026).
Next mayoral election
Annual Meeting of Council, Thursday 5 November 2026Listed on the council's meetings page. This page will be updated after it.
Changes since the 2024 election
NoneThe VEC lists no Manningham by-election or countback since October 2024 (its most recent Manningham entries are 2011 countbacks in the former Koonung Ward).

Your representatives

Want to raise something? Contacting your ward councillor or the mayor is one of the most direct ways to be heard between elections.

Victorian council ballot papers and results don't show party affiliation, so we don't label councillors. We list who holds office, with the council email addresses on their official profiles (as archived in January 2026), and link to the election results. The VEC lists the Manna Ward councillor as Peter Timothy Bain. If a seat falls vacant, Manningham's single-councillor wards fill it by a by-election, not a countback, as long as more than 6 months of the term remain. For the latest list, see the council's page or the VEC.

Sources — check it yourself

Figures are current as at the dates shown and may change — always confirm with the linked source. See the notice at the bottom of the page for full details and how to report a correction.