Bayside council election, 2024

The City of Bayside covers suburbs in the south-east of Melbourne running along the shore of Port Phillip Bay, including Brighton, Beaumaris, Hampton, Sandringham and parts of Cheltenham and Brighton East.

The council had a population of 101,306 as of the 2021 census.

• Wards
• Incumbent councillors
• History
• Council control
• Candidate summary
• Assessment
• 2020 results
• Voting trends by ward

Wards
The City of Bayside is divided into nine single-member wards:

• Beckett – in the far south, covering most of Beaumaris.
• Bleazby – in the north, covering parts of Brighton and Brighton East.
• Boyd – in the centre, covering parts of Hampton and Sandringham.
• Castlefield – in the centre, covering parts of Brighton, Brighton East and Hampton.
• Dendy – in the north, covering parts of Brighton.
• Ebden – in the south, covering Cheltenham, Black Rock and parts of Sandringhm and Beaumaris.
• Ivison – in the east, covering Highett and parts of Hampton East.

Incumbent councillors

History
The City of Bayside was created in 1994, taking in the Brighton and Sandringham council areas and parts of the Mordialloc and Moorabbin council areas.

The council was elected from nine single-member wards until 2007. The council was reduced in size that year to seven, and elected from one three-member ward and two two-member wards. The council was restored to single-member wards in 2020.

Council control
Six out of seven councillors have served either as mayor or deputy mayor in the current term. Laurence Evans was mayor from 2020 to 2021, Alex del Porto from 2021 to 2022, Hanna El Mouallem from 2022 to 2023, and Fiona Stitfold since 2023.

Candidate summary
Sitting councillors Alex del Porto, Clarke Martin and Jo Samuel-King are not running for re-election.

The Greens and Victorian Socialists are each running in one ward. All other candidates are unendorsed by any party.

The Dendy ward has 18 candidates – the most of any single-member ward in the state. The Castlefield ward is ranked equal second with 15 candidates.

Assessment
Bayside council doesn’t have any partisan members and there’s no obvious factional trends amongst the councillors. Some of the wards have particularly fierce contests which have led to a lot of support candidates nominating to encourage preference flows.

2020 results

Voting trends by ward
In order to understand the relative political position of each ward, I have estimated the results of the 2022 federal election in each ward.

The entirety of Bayside council is in the federal electorate of Goldstein, which was won by independent candidate Zoe Daniel in 2022. Daniel won the two-candidate-preferred in all but one ward in 2022, with the Liberals barely winning a majority in the northern Dendy ward. Daniel’s vote was highest in the middle of the council, in the Boyd and Ivison wards.

The Liberal Party won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote against Labor in all areas, with their vote highest at the northern and southern ends of the council and lowest in the middle.

Candidates – Beckett Ward

• Debbie Taylor-Haynes
• Jess Clark
• Chris Sutton
• Garry Hoover

Candidates – Bleazby Ward

• Lily Andrews
• Lyn Maver
• Robert Irlicht
• Jerry Soldatos
• John Rundell
• Tony Fischetto
• Jenson Galvin

Candidates – Boyd Ward

• Christine Barca
• Cr Fiona Stitfold
• David Williams
• Kylie McIntosh
• Jane Ev Proskurnya
• Nicholas Healey
• Faiza Nouman

Candidates – Castlefield Ward

• Tim Wood
• Elli Murray
• Kevin Howard
• Toni Armstrong
• Penelope Ann Hansen
• Karen Clements
• James D. Catlin
• Richard Campbell
• Hamish Hughes
• Amanda McSweeney
• Anne Elizabeth Fitzgerald
• Jarrod Kanizay
• Bella Irlicht
• Robyn Buccheri
• Colleen Harkin

Candidates – Dendy Ward

• Mark Tseytlin
• Ming Min Xu
• Mike Rawlinson
• David Lurie
• Cr Hanna El Mouallem
• Joanne Bryant
• Natalie French
• Terence Scanlon
• Alex Nutman
• Joshua Goldstat
• Steve Wolf
• Thomas Bartels
• Lindsey Joffe
• Paras Georgoulos
• Hugh McFadden
• Greg Smith
• Michael Heffernan
• Isabella Do Rozario-Romic

Candidates – Ebden Ward

• Matthew Kaplan
• Cr Laurence Evans
• David Perry
• Ian Cochrane
• Janet Abadee
• Timothy David Watts
• Calista Clements
• Geoff Leigh
• Clifford Maillard

Candidates – Ivison Ward

• Andrew Hockley
• Brandon Hoult
• Liam Kruger (Victorian Socialists)
• James Long
• Nicholas Batzialas
• Cr Sonia Castelli
• Alysia Regan (Greens)
• Lyn Austin
• Anastasia Sagris-Desmond

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