2005 Victorian local elections

Local government election in Victoria

2005 Victorian local elections

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| <- 2004 | 26 November 2005 | 2008 ->

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Turnout| 75.2%
|  | First party  | Second party  | Third party

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IND

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Leader  | N/A | N/A | N/A
Party  | Independents | Labor | Liberal
Last election  | [a] | [a] | [a]

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| Fourth party  |
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Leader  | No leader |
Party  | Greens |
Last election  | 2[a] |
Seats won  | 5  |
Seat change  |  4  |
Popular vote  | 32,637  |

The 2005 Victorian local elections were held on 26 November 2005 to elect the councils of 54 of the 79 local government areas in Victoria, Australia.[1]

These were the last local elections in Victoria that were conducted periodically, with changes to the Local Government Act 1989 seeing all 79 LGAs voting at the same time in 2008. 25 councils were not up for election in 2005.[2]

## Notes

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1. ^ a b c d This only includes the 54 councils up for election in 2005, not councillors in the remaining 25 councils.

## References

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1. ^ "Local council election results timeline". Victorian Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 2017-03-03.
2. ^ "VOTING METHOD FOR THE 2008 COUNCIL ELECTIONS" (PDF). City of Melbourne. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-11-02.

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