City of Melbourne election, 2008

The 2008 City of Melbourne election took place in late November. Voter turnout was 62% of the total enrolment of 97,846.[1] The new council was sworn in on 4 December 2008.

Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor

Incumbent: John So (Lord Mayor); Gary Singer (Deputy Lord Mayor)

Team Candidates 1st preference votes Votes after distribution
Activate Melbourne Robert Doyle (Lord Mayor)
Susan Riley (Deputy Lord Mayor)
15,135 31,348
The Greens Adam Bandt
Kathleen Maltzahn
8,729
McMullin-Wilson for Melbourne's Future Peter McMullin
Tim Wilson
7,267
C Melbourne Grow - Catherine Ng Catherine Ng
Terry Makings
6,315 26,614
Team Melbourne Gary Singer
Joanne Painter
6,056
Fowles A Fresh Vision Will Fowles
David Wilson
5,004
Morgan Clarke - Our City - Your Council Gary Morgan
Michele Anderson
4,526
Passion for Melbourne Nick Columb
Sue Calwell
2,712
Shifting the Burden Joseph Toscano
Margaret Ely
815
Residents Equity - Affordable Resident Rates Shelley Roberts
Abdiaziz Farah
719
Melbourne Supercity World Robert King Crawford
Michael Kennedy
684

Councillors

The seven elected councillors were:[1]

Candidate Group ticket Group votes
Carl Jetter Activate Melbourne 11,874
Cathy Oke The Greens 10,939
Kevin Louey McMullin-Wilson for Melbourne's Future 7,531
Peter Clarke Morgann Clarke - Our City - Your Council 5,605
Ken Ong Team Melbourne 6,875
Brian Shanahan C Melbourne Grow - Catherine Ng 6,270
Jennifer Kanis Fowles a fresh vision 6,081

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, January 12, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.