2022 Hobart City Council election

2022 Hobart City Council election

3–25 October 2022

All 12 seats on Hobart City Council
7 seats needed for a majority
Lord Mayor
Turnout83.02%
  First party Second party Third party
 
IND
IND
Candidate Anna Reynolds John Kelly Marti Zucco
Party Your Hobart Independent Independent
Primary vote 9,015 6,190 3,676
Percentage 28.78% 19.76% 11.73%
TCP 53.41% 46.59%

Lord Mayor before election

Anna Reynolds
Your Hobart Independents

Elected Lord Mayor

Anna Reynolds
Your Hobart Independents

Deputy Lord Mayor
Turnout83.02%
  First party Second party Third party
 
IND
YHI
Candidate Helen Burnet Simon Behrakis Mike Dutta
Party Greens Ind. Liberal Your Hobart
Primary vote 8,203 5,261 4,557
Percentage 26.38% 16.92% 14.65%
TCP 61.13% 38.87%

Deputy Lord Mayor before election

Helen Burnet
Greens

Elected Deputy Lord Mayor

Helen Burnet
Greens

Councillors
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Independents N/A 41.21 4
Your Hobart Anna Reynolds 26.37 3
Ind. Liberal N/A 12.72 2
Greens Bill Harvey 12.30 2
Ind. Labor N/A 3.31 1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2022 Hobart City Council election was held in October 2022 to elect a lord mayor, deputy lord mayor and 12 councillors to the City of Hobart. The election was held as part of the statewide local elections in Tasmania, Australia.

Anna Reynolds was re-elected lord mayor with 53.41% of the vote after preferences, while Helen Burnet was re-elected deputy lord mayor.

An elector poll was also held with the question of 'Do you support the University of Tasmania’s proposal to relocate the Sandy Bay campus into Hobart’s central business district?' with 7,797 (25.62%) yes votes and 22,631 (74.38%) no votes.

Like all other local government areas in Tasmania, voting was compulsory for the first time.