2022 Hobart City Council election

2022 Hobart City Council election
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Turnout83.02% (lord mayoral election)
Lord Mayor
  First party Second party Third party
 
IND
IND
Candidate Anna Reynolds John Kelly Marti Zucco
Party Your Hobart Independent Independent
Popular vote 9,015 6,190 3,676
Percentage 28.78% 19.76% 11.73%
2CP 53.41% 46.59%
Lord Mayor before election

Anna Reynolds
Your Hobart Independents

Subsequent Lord Mayor

Anna Reynolds
Your Hobart Independents

Deputy Lord Mayor
  First party Second party Third party
 
IND
YHI
Candidate Helen Burnet Simon Behrakis Mike Dutta
Party Greens Ind. Liberal Your Hobart
Popular vote 8,203 5,261 4,557
Percentage 26.38% 16.92% 14.65%
2CP 61.13% 38.87%
Deputy before election

Helen Burnet
Greens

Subsequent Deputy

Helen Burnet
Greens

Councillors
All 12 members on the City Council
7 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Independent N/A 41.21 4
Your Hobart Independents Anna Reynolds 26.37 3
Independent Liberal N/A 12.72 2
Greens Bill Harvey 12.30 2
Independent Labor N/A 3.31 1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2022 Hobart City Council election was held in October 2022 to elect a lord mayor, deputy lord mayor and 12 councillors to the City of Hobart. The election was held as part of the statewide local elections in Tasmania, Australia.[1]

Anna Reynolds was re-elected lord mayor with 53.41% of the vote after preferences, while Helen Burnet was re-elected deputy lord mayor.

An elector poll was also held with the question of 'Do you support the University of Tasmania’s proposal to relocate the Sandy Bay campus into Hobart’s central business district?' with 7,797 (25.62%) yes votes and 22,631 (74.38%) no votes.[2]

Like all other local government areas in Tasmania, voting was compulsory for the first time.[3]

Candidates

Incumbent lord mayor Anna Reynolds announced in June 2022 that she would seek re-election.[4]

Former Liberal Democrats senator Duncan Spender contested the deputy lord mayoral election.[5]

Results

Lord Mayor

2022 Tasmanian mayoral elections: Hobart
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Your Hobart Independents Anna Reynolds 9,015 28.78
Independent John Kelly 6,190 19.76
Independent Marti Zucco 3,676 11.73
Independent Louise Elliot 3,593 11.47
Greens Bill Harvey 3,481 11.11
Independent Liberal Louise Bloomfield 3,025 9.65
Our Hobart Marcus Bai 1,176 3.75
Independent Liberal Will Coats 1,161 3.70
Total formal votes 31,317 97.87
Informal votes 684 2.13
Turnout 32,001 83.02
Two-candidate-preferred result
Your Hobart Independents Anna Reynolds 14,571 53.41
Independent John Kelly 12,711 46.59
Your Hobart Independents hold Swing

Deputy Lord Mayor

2022 Tasmanian deputy mayoral elections: Hobart
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Greens Helen Burnet 8,203 26.38
Independent Liberal Simon Behrakis 5,261 16.92
Your Hobart Independents Mike Dutta 4,557 14.65
Independent Jeff Briscoe 4,538 14.59
Independent Labor Ryan Posselt 2,816 9.05
Independent Damon Thomas 2,315 7.44
Our Hobart Ron Christie 1,453 4.67
Ind. Liberal Democrat Duncan Spender 1,043 3.35
Independent Michael Jackson 470 1.51
Our Hobart Owen Davies 432 1.38
Total formal votes 31,088 97.15
Informal votes 914 2.85
Turnout 32,002 83.02
Two-candidate-preferred result
Greens Helen Burnet 16,068 61.13
Independent Liberal Simon Behrakis 10,216 38.87
Greens hold Swing

Councillors

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Tasmanian local elections § Hobart.[edit]
2022 Tasmanian local elections: Hobart[6][7][8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Your Hobart Independents Anna Reynolds (elected) 4,266 13.89
Independent John Kelly (elected) 4,067 13.24
Independent Marti Zucco (elected) 2,150 7.00
Independent Louise Elliot (elected) 1,824 5.94
Greens Helen Burnet (elected) 1,529 4.98
Independent Liberal Louise Bloomfield (elected) 1,473 4.80
Independent Liberal Simon Behrakis (elected) 1,448 4.72
Your Hobart Independents Mike Dutta (elected) 1,230 4.01
Greens Bill Harvey (elected) 1,219 3.97
Independent Labor Ryan Posselt (elected) 1,016 3.31
Independent Ben Lohberger (elected) 936 3.05
Independent Jax Fox 838 2.73
Your Hobart Independents Zelinda Sherlock (elected) 656 2.14
Your Hobart Independents Kate Kelly 646 2.10
Independent Jeff Briscoe 605 1.97
Our Hobart Marcus Bai 572 1.86
Your Hobart Independents Brian Corr 500 1.63
Independent Liberal Will Coats 486 1.58
Independent Damon Thomas 459 1.49
Greens Gemma Kitsos 428 1.39
Your Hobart Independents Matt Etherington 373 1.21
Independent Steven Phipps 350 1.14
Greens Bec Taylor 321 1.05
Greens Nathan Volf 281 0.92
Independent Debra Thurley 270 0.88
Independent Edwin Johnstone 268 0.87
Your Hobart Independents Juniper Shaw 258 0.84
Independent Liberal James McKee 256 0.83
Our Hobart Ron Christie 241 0.78
Independent Yang Liu 225 0.73
Independent Sam Campbell 213 0.69
Your Hobart Independents Raj Chopra 169 0.55
Ind. Liberal Democrat Duncan Spender 157 0.51
Independent Tiina Sexton 137 0.45
Our Hobart Lili Christie 131 0.43
Independent Liberal Daniel Geng 127 0.41
Independent Liberal Stefan Vogel 115 0.37
Independent Jono Stagg 108 0.35
Independent Michael Jackson 99 0.32
Our Hobart Ling Ling Gao 76 0.25
Independent Joe Grech 72 0.23
Our Hobart Owen Davies 42 0.14
Our Hobart Karen Rothery 39 0.13
Independent Cadence Mitchell 32 0.10
Total formal votes 30,708 96.70
Informal votes 1,047 3.30
Turnout 31,755 82.38
Party total votes
Independent 12,653 41.21
Your Hobart Independents 8,098 26.37
Independent Liberal 3,905 12.72
Greens 3,778 12.30
Our Hobart 1,101 3.59
Independent Labor 1,016 3.31
Independent Liberal Democrat 157 0.51
Party total seats Seats ±
Independent 4
Your Hobart Independents 3
Greens 2
Independent Liberal 2
Independent Labor 1

References

  1. ^ "Local government elections 2022". Tasmanian Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 28 December 2023.
  2. ^ "2022 election results - Hobart City Council". Tasmanian Electoral Commission. 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Voting in Tasmania's local council elections is now compulsory. Here's what you need to know". ABC News.
  4. ^ "Anna Reynolds wants another term as mayor". The Mercury.
  5. ^ "Council should stop giving away other people's money: candidate". The Mercury.
  6. ^ "Hobart City Council". Tasmanian Electoral Commission.
  7. ^ "Team teal: Independents join forces for election". The Mercury.
  8. ^ "Greens Announce 5 Candidates for HCC Elections". Tasmanian Times.
  9. ^ "Hobart City Council Elections Candidate Guide And Preview 2022". Dr Kevin Bonham.