In early counts of votes in the local government elections, there has already been clear political shifts in some key Melbourne councils.
The Greens are lagging in their inner-Melbourne heartlands, while Liberals have been “wiped out” in a key conservative council in the city’s east by “teal”-type independents, early voting patterns for the local government elections show.
Yarra council, which takes in Fitzroy, Richmond and Collingwood, was acknowledged as the country’s first Greens-dominated local council in 2020, with five of nine councillors from the party. It is too early to consider Crossland or Wade safe, with Crossland on 32 per cent of the primary vote being challenged by two Yarra For All candidates and Wade on 33 per cent under challenge from independents.“It seems like Yarra For All has done very well, but hard to say until group B comes in,” said Ben Raue, election analyst and founder of the Tallyroom.
But counting in this election so far indicates Green wins are only possible in two wards, while Labor is currently ahead in six. Meanwhile, in Boroondara, in the city’s east, there has been a major shift away from the Liberal Party to pro-environment “teal”-type independents in what one successful candidate has described as “a devastating rebuke of major party politics in local government”.
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