2008 Victorian local elections
29 November 2008
  First party Second party Third party
 
IND
Leader N/A N/A N/A
Party Independents Labor Liberal
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
SA
DLP
Leader No leader No leader Peter Kavanagh
Party Greens Socialist Alliance Democratic Labour
Last election 0 1
Seats before 0 1
Seats won 0 1
Seat change Increase Steady Steady
  Seventh party
 
SOC
Leader No leader
Party Socialist
Last election 1
Seats before 1
Seats won 1
Seat change Steady

The 2008 Victorian local elections were held on 29 November 2008 to elect the councils of the 79 local government areas in Victoria, Australia.[1]

As a result of changes to the Local Government Act 1989, local elections in Victoria were no longer conducted periodically, and all 79 LGAs voted at the same time.[2]

The elections saw the first election victories for The Greens in Casey, Darebin, Glen Eira, Manningham, Queenscliffe and Surf Coast.[3]

Labor Party-endorsed candidates ran in Maribyrnong, while former Liberal leader Robert Doyle was elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne on the Activate Melbourne ticket.[4][5]

Aftermath

Three Greens councillors were elected mayor by a vote of other councillors following the elections: Amanda Stone (Yarra), Philip Schier (Mount Alexander) and Helen Harris (Whitehorse).[3]

In May 2010, three Labor councillors in Moreland − Stella Kariofyllidis, Kathleen Matthews-Ward and Alice Pryor − were suspended from the party after not voting for Labor's Enver Erdogan to become mayor. Kariofyllidis was suspended for three years, while the others were suspended for two years.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Local council election results timeline". Victorian Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 2017-03-03.
  2. ↑ "VOTING METHOD FOR THE 2008 COUNCIL ELECTIONS" (PDF). City of Melbourne. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-11-02.
  3. 1 2 "Victorian council elections: November 29". The Poll Bludger.
  4. ↑ "Martin Zakharov". Trove. Martin Zakharov.
  5. ↑ "Activate Melbourne". Trove. Activate Melbourne.
  6. ↑ "ALP suspends trio for breaking ranks". The Age. Archived from the original on 1 November 2023.
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