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Lord Mayor & councillors

Lord Mayor & councillors

Melbourne is the only Victorian council where voters elect the head of the council directly. At the October 2024 election, voters chose a Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor together as a 'leadership team', and separately elected 9 councillors from the whole municipality (there are no wards). All 11 serve the 2024–2028 term. The council was sworn in on 19 November 2024.

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

Lord Mayor
Nicholas ReeceElected directly by voters in 2024 (listed on the VEC ballot as 'REECE, Nick'). The council says he was first elected as a councillor in 2016 and as Deputy Lord Mayor in 2020.
Deputy Lord Mayor
Roshena CampbellElected on the same leadership-team ticket. The council says she was first elected as a councillor in 2020.
Councillors
9, elected across the whole municipalityMatches the Victorian Electoral Commission's list of current councillors (checked Sep 2026).
Changes since the 2024 election
NoneThe VEC lists no Melbourne by-election or countback since October 2024. Its most recent Melbourne entries are the 2018 Lord Mayor by-election and a January 2018 countback.

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.

Unlike other Victorian councils, Melbourne's ballot papers group candidates under team or group names. The name next to each person is the group they stood in, copied exactly as the Victorian Electoral Commission's 2024 results page shows it. It is the team name shown on the ballot, not a party label: the results page doesn't say whether a group was endorsed by a registered political party, and we don't add one. We list the Lord Mayor's council email; each councillor's profile page has their contact details. If a councillor's seat falls vacant, it is filled by a countback of the 2024 votes; the Lord Mayor's position was last filled by a by-election in 2018.

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.