New Council Announced

The City of Stonnington will welcome a new nine-member Council following the Victorian Electoral Commission officially declaring the election results today.

The Stonnington election result will see the return of three current and the arrival of six new Councillors for a four-year term.

A feature of this election has been the change to the ward structure, with one Councillor representing each of Stonnington's nine new wards (previously there were three wards with three Councillors in each).

The incoming Councillors for each ward are:

Ward Councillor
Como Meghan Hopper
GrevilleMelina Sehr
Hedgeley DeneSally Davis
Malvern Valley Jami Klisaris
OrrongSamantha Choudhury
South YarraKate Hely
ToorakTom Humphries
ToorongaJamie Bell
WattletreeSteve Stefanopoulos

A Councillor swearing in ceremony will be held at 7pm on Monday 18 November in the Malvern Town Hall Council Chamber and the election of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and other key appointments will take place at 7pm on Thursday 21 November in the Council Chamber.

Congratulations to the new and returned Councillors.

Also, a sincere thank you to outgoing Councillors who will not be returning to Council this year – Nicki Batagol, Joe Gianfriddo, Marcia Griffin, Matthew Koce, Polly Morgan and Mike Scott.

The first Ordinary meeting of the new Council will be in early December. View the Council meeting calendar here.

Read the Victorian Electoral Commission announcement.


Ward map and Councillors

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