2022 Hobart City Council election

2022 Hobart City Council election

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Turnout	83.02% (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]