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Mayor & councillors

Mayor & councillors

Yarra has 9 councillors, one for each ward: Boulevard, Curtain, Hoddle, Langridge, Lennox, MacKillop, Melba, Nicholls and Yarra Bend. They were 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.
See the full explainer, with formulas →

Who represents you

Mayor
Cr Stephen Jolly (MacKillop Ward)First elected Mayor on 19 November 2024, after the 2024 election. The councillors elected him to continue as Mayor for 2026 at the council meeting on 11 November 2025 (council news item, 12 November 2025). The state's September 2026 council contacts list records this as his second mayoral term.
Deputy Mayor
Cr Sharon Harrison (Boulevard Ward)Elected Deputy Mayor at the same November 2025 meeting.
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
Expected November 2026The councillors have elected the Mayor in November each year of this term. We couldn't read the date of the 2026 vote on the council's pages; check its council meetings page. This page will be updated after it.Council meetings →
Changes since the 2024 election
NoneThe VEC lists no Yarra by-election or countback since October 2024 (its most recent Yarra entry is a January 2023 countback in the former Langridge 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 the council's councillors page (as archived in July 2026), and link to the election results. The council also publishes a phone number for each councillor; we don't republish those. If a seat falls vacant, Yarra'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.