2024 Council Elections

Every four years, City of Melton residents vote to elect Councillors to represent the City of Melton community.  The next Council Election will be held on Saturday 26 October 2024.

The Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) is responsible for managing local Council elections.  The roll for the 2024 local council elections closed at 4pm on Wednesday 7 August.  It is too late to enrol or update your enrolment for this election.

Election Period

The Election Period begins on the last day of candidate nominations and ends at 6pm on Election Day.

  • Candidate nominations close: Tuesday at 12 noon on 17 September 2024
  • Election Day: Saturday 26 October 2024
  • Please note: the election is conducted by postal vote

For information on becoming a candidate visit: VEC website.

Council operations during the Election Period

During the Election Period most Council services will operate as usual. 

Council will follow procedures to prevent making decisions that would affect voting at an election or decisions that may unreasonably bind an incoming Council and could reasonably be deferred until after the election. 

To ensure compliance with Melton City Council Election Policy and the Local Government Act 2020 restrictions and limitations will apply to the following:

  • Major decisions
  • Community engagement
  • Social Media
  • Media, marketing and communications
  • Allocating community grants or other direct funding to community organisations
  • Major planning scheme amendments
  • Changes to strategic objectives and strategies identified in the Council Plan
  • Adopting policy
  • Setting advocacy positions
       
New City of Melton wards

The City of Melton will move to a single-councillor ward structure from the 2024 local government election onwards.

From this election, the City of Melton will move from three wards to 10, each of these 10 wards will have one elected Councillor, these new wards will be: 

  1. Bullum Bullum Ward
  2. Cambrian Ward
  3. Coolibah Ward
  4. Hilltop Ward
  5. Jackwood Ward
  6. Lake Caroline Ward
  7. Mount Atkinson Ward
  8. Stringybark Ward
  9. Sugar Gum Ward
  10. Watts Ward

The new electoral structure was published in the Victorian Government Gazette on 15 February 2024.  For information on the electoral structure review and to view the final report visit the VEC website. 

Download: City of Melton current ward map(PDF, 1MB) 
Download: City of Melton new ward map(PDF, 4MB)

Information Request Register

Clause 8.5 of Council's Election Policy outlines the maintenance of an Information Request Register during the election period.  This document records all electoral-related requests and non-routine information inquiries made by candidates, along with the responses provided.

Download the Information Request Register(PDF, 129KB) 

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