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.
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
Stephen Jolly
Mayor / Councillor · MacKillop Ward
Sharon Harrison
Deputy Mayor / Councillor · Boulevard Ward
Edward Crossland
Councillor · Curtain Ward
Sophie Wade
Councillor · Hoddle Ward
Evangeline Aston
Councillor · Langridge Ward
Andrew Davies
Councillor · Lennox Ward
Meca Ho
Councillor · Melba Ward
Kenneth Gomez
Councillor · Nicholls Ward
Sarah McKenzie
Councillor · Yarra Bend 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 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
- Yarra City Council — Councillors (roster and emails), read from an archived copy · Jul 2026
- Yarra City Council — Mayor, Cr Stephen Jolly (profile), read from an archived copy · Jun 2026
- Yarra City Council — Mayor and Deputy Mayor elected for 2026 (12 Nov 2025), read from an archived copy · Nov 2025
- Victorian Electoral Commission — Yarra City Council (current councillors) · Sep 2026
- Local Government Victoria — Victorian local government contacts, September 2026 (mayor and deputy mayor) · Sep 2026
- Victorian Electoral Commission — By-elections and countbacks timeline · Sep 2026
- Victorian Electoral Commission — 2024 Yarra City 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.