Mayor & councillors
Northern Grampians has 6 councillors: 3 wards (Central, Grampians and Kara Kara), each electing two. The current council was elected in October 2024 for the 2024–2028 term. Voters don't elect the Mayor directly: the councillors choose one of themselves each year.
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.
Who represents you
- Mayor
- Cr Karen Hyslop (Central Ward)Returned as Mayor for 2025–26 by the councillors at the statutory meeting on 10 November 2025.Council announcement →
- Deputy Mayor
- Cr Justine Hide (Grampians Ward)Re-elected Deputy Mayor at the same meeting, for a second term.
- Councillors
- 6 in office, no vacanciesMatches the VEC's list of current councillors and the council's Councillors page (checked Sep 2026). The VEC lists no by-election or countback for this council since the 2024 election.
- Next mayoral election
- Statutory Meeting, Tuesday 10 November 2026, 6pm, StawellListed in the council's 2026 meeting schedule. Council meetings are open to the public and livestreamed on the council's YouTube channel.Council meetings →
- Email your councillors
- councillor@ngshire.vic.gov.auOne address for all six councillors. The council says its Executive Assistant registers operational requests in its customer request system and councillors are told of the responses. Post: PO Box 580, Stawell VIC 3380.Email →
Your representatives
Karen Hyslop
Mayor / Councillor · Central Ward
Justine Hide
Deputy Mayor / Councillor · Grampians Ward
Jenny Greenberger
Councillor · Central Ward
Jack Blake
Councillor · Grampians Ward
Karen Probst
Councillor · Kara Kara Ward
Murray Emerson
Councillor · Kara Kara Ward
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 shared councillor email address the council publishes, and link to the election results. The council's ward map and the VEC show which ward your address is in. Each ward elects two councillors by proportional representation, so a vacancy is normally filled by a VEC countback of the 2024 votes rather than a by-election. For the latest list, see the council's page or the VEC.
Sources — check it yourself
- Northern Grampians Shire Council — Councillors · Sep 2026
- Northern Grampians Shire Council — Crs Hyslop and Hide re-elected to lead council for 2025-26 (10 Nov 2025) · Nov 2025
- Northern Grampians Shire Council — Council Meetings (2026 schedule) · Sep 2026
- Victorian Electoral Commission — Northern Grampians Shire Council (current councillors) · Sep 2026
- Victorian Electoral Commission — Council by-elections and countbacks timeline · Sep 2026
- Victorian Electoral Commission — 2024 Northern Grampians Shire Council election results · Nov 2024
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.