2004 Victorian local elections

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Registered

800,000+

Turnout

71.1%

	First party	Second party	Third party
	IND
Leader	N/A	N/A	No leader
Party	Independents	Labor	Greens
Last election			4
Seats before			4
Seats won	159	22	6
Seats after			10
Seat change			2
Popular vote	606,598	78,241	21,995
Percentage	76.92%	9.92%	2.79%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party
		SA	DLP
Leader	N/A	No leader	No leader
Party	Liberal	Socialist Alliance	Democratic Labour
Last election	8	0	0
Seats before		0	0
Seats won	9	0	1
Seat change			1
Popular vote	21,686	5,512	4,378
Percentage	2.75%	0.70%	0.56%

	Seventh party
	SOC
Leader	No leader
Party	Socialist
Last election	0
Seats before	0
Seats won	1
Seat change	1
Popular vote	1,359
Percentage	0.17%
Swing	0.02

The 2004 Victorian local elections were held on 26 November 2004 to elect the councils of 22 of the 79 local government areas in Victoria, Australia.

Until 2008, local elections in Victoria were conducted periodically, meaning 54 councils were not up for election in 2004. An additional three LGAs that were scheduled to vote in 2004 also did not have elections.

A shift away from single-member wards in favour of multi-member wards began in 2004, in particular in the Greater Melbourne area.

The election in Yarra saw the first-ever victory for the Socialist Party, with Stephen Jolly elected in Langridge Ward. He was reportedly the first elected socialist councillor in Melbourne "since the Second World War".

In Melbourne, Labor Party members ran on a ticket called 'Active Local Progressive' (ALP), led by Raymond Collins.

Party changes before elections

A number of councillors joined or left parties before the 2004 elections.

Council	Ward	Councillor	Former party		New party		Date
Melbourne	Unsubdivided	Kevin Chamberlin		Labor		Independent	7 November 2002
Melbourne	Unsubdivided	Kevin Chamberlin		Independent		Kevin Chamberlin For Melbourne	2004

Results

Main article: Results of the 2004 Victorian local elections

Party		Votes	%	Seats	Change
	Independents	606,598	76.92	159
	Labor	78,241	9.92	22
	Greens	21,995	2.79	6	2
	Liberal	21,686	2.75	9
	Melbourne Living	18,155	2.30	3
	Socialist Alliance	5,512	0.70	0
	Democratic Labour	4,378	0.56	1	1
	Independent Labor	4,637	0.59	1
	Kevin Chamberlin For Melbourne	3,297	0.42	0
	Melbourne Civic Group	3,018	0.38	1
	Advance Melbourne	2,742	0.35	1
	Serving Melbourne	2,335	0.30	1
	Residents First - Stop The Rates Ripoff	2,210	0.28	0
	Melbourne First	1,454	0.18	0
	Active Local Progressive	1,441	0.18	0
	Campaign for a Better City	1,375	0.17	0
	Socialist Left-Wing Team	1,359	0.17	1	1
	Melbourne: Building An Even Better City	1,261	0.16	0
	Melbourne At Work	904	0.12	0
	Melbourne Matters	860	0.11	0
	Sue Chambers Act Local Team	822	0.11	0
	Growing Melbourne	777	0.10	0
	Melbourne Arts Fashion Design Innovation	777	0.10	0
	Transparency And Accountability	724	0.09	0
	!ST@ND UP 4 MELBOURNE!	555	0.07	0
	Strengthen Melbourne	493	0.06	0
	Evolving Melbourne	394	0.05	0
	Save Our Streets	332	0.04	0
	Sustainable City	231	0.03	0
Total		788,563	100.0	204
Informal votes
Turnout

Council control

Party		Councils
Party		Number	Change
	Independent	17
	No overall control	2
	Labor	2
	Melbourne Living	1

Notes

^ This only includes the 22 councils up for election in 2004, not councillors in the remaining 57 councils.

References

"Local council election results timeline". Victorian Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 2017-03-03.
"VOTING METHOD FOR THE 2008 COUNCIL ELECTIONS" (PDF). City of Melbourne. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-11-02.
"Victorian councils 2020 – the impact of the Somyurek changes". The Tally Room.
"Yarra City Council election results 2004 – Victorian Electoral Commission". www.vec.vic.gov.au.
"Monument still damns bad choices". The Age.
"AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY MEMBERS FOR MELBOURNE". Trove. Active Local Progressive.

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