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As a result, the overwhelming majority of councillors in Victoria are independents. The prevalence of independent councillors is generally larger in regional and rural areas, with metropolitan LGAs having a greater number of party-affiliated councillors. Nonetheless, recent trends have seen greater
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The average area of a municipal district within the Melbourne metropolitan area is 285 square kilometres (110 sq mi); the average area of the remaining municipal districts is 4,545 square kilometres (1,755 sq mi). Despite this area being comparable to the average area of a US or
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of 1874. The act empowered shires to be established in territories that could financially support them, and boroughs to be established in areas not exceeding 9 square miles (23 km) with a population of at least 300. Promotion to town or city status was dependent upon the gross revenue of the
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Council elections are held every four years on the fourth Saturday in October. The last council elections were held on 22 October 2016. An election was not held for the City of Greater Geelong, which was under administration until council elections were held on 27 October 2017. In 2016, 637 local
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levels, local government elections in Victoria are a generally non-partisan affair. Major political parties typically do not endorse candidates at the council level. This has resulted in a situation where councillors may hold political party affiliation, but instead contest the election as an
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They are rarely included in lists of local government areas and are not considered to be LGAs by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, with their population included in the unincorporated areas section of such lists, but are occasionally listed alongside municipalities.
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All local government areas (i.e. cities, rural cities, shires and boroughs) are governed in a similar fashion, with an elected council, one of whom is the mayor (in shires the mayor may use the title "president"; the City of Melbourne has the title "lord mayor"). The
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dates to 1989 and eliminated administrative distinctions between cities and shires, introduced the category of rural city and removed the possibility of declaring any further boroughs or towns (existing boroughs and towns were retained, although only one, the
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have much of their area outside Melbourne's urban area. Greater Melbourne and regional municipalities are sometimes treated differently by state government legislation, for instance the Public Holidays Act permits non-metropolitan councils to replace
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Thirty-one of the municipalities form the Greater Melbourne area, each being wholly, or partly, within the Melbourne metropolitan or urban area. All Melbourne suburbs lie within these municipalities. The outer of these municipalities such as
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English county, there are no administrative subdivisions such as American towns and cities or English parishes; suburbs (a part of an urban area), towns and rural districts, although legally defined, have a purely geographical existence.
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Some LGAs are divided into wards for the purpose of electing Councillors. Where a ward elects a single councillor, it is by preferential voting. Where it elects multiple councillors, it is by proportional voting using the
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and Deputy Lord Mayor, who are directly elected, and in the other councils a mayor and deputy mayor are elected by fellow Councillors from among their own number. Since 2017, the mayor of the
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53 municipalities were reduced to 26. The new local government areas (LGAs) were headed by commissioners appointed by the State Government. Democratically elected councils returned in 1996.
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government restructured local government in Victoria. His reforms dissolved 210 councils and sacked 1600 elected councillors, and created 78 new councils through amalgamations. In suburban
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1958, boroughs, towns and cities were defined on the basis of area, population and rateable property. In practice, boroughs were and are small towns.
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They will typically have an elected council and usually a mayor or shire president responsible for chairing meetings of the council. The
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was established in 1849. Both bodies continued after the creation of Victoria as a separate colony, and both later became cities.
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has a directly elected Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor, whereas other councils elect a mayor from one of their number. The
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party involvement within local government politics. This participation has been large among smaller parties such as the
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were established under legislation passed in 1853. From 1862 many road districts became shires pursuant to the
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after the 2016 council elections, but this was abandoned by the Victorian Government in October 2015.
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Department of Planning and Community Development, Government of Victoria, Australia (19 April 2013).
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Councillors were elected in the 78 Councils contested. Casual vacancies of councilors are filled by
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within the state. These comprise both coastal islands and alpine resorts. The coastal islands are:
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These coastal island unincorporated areas are directly administered by the state of Victoria.
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This article is about local government in Victoria. For a list of local government areas, see
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1997. The alpine resorts are considered to be municipal districts for the purposes of the
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Six alpine resorts are excised from the surrounding shires by declarations made under the
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Local government has been referred to in the Victorian constitution since 1979 (sec. II
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was established by an Act of the NSW Governor and Legislative Council in 1842 and the
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of the last ballots, except for the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, which is filled by a
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Local government has existed in Victoria since before its separation from
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The first Victorian general Act dealing with local government was the
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The current political composition of Victorian LGAs is as follows:
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council. Promotion was not automatic, but it was granted often.
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1983 and administered by Alpine Resort Victoria under the
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Different councils have different numbers of councillors
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In 1992, there were 65 cities in Victoria. In 1994, the
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Index

Local government areas of Victoria
Politics and government
Victoria
Coat of arms of Victoria, Australia
Monarch
King Charles III
Governor
Linda Dessau
Premier
Daniel Andrews
Deputy Premier
Jacinta Allan
Current ministry
Police
Legislative
Legislative Council
President
Nazih Elasmar
Members (MLCs)
Legislative Assembly
Speaker
Maree Edwards
Members (MLAs)
Opposition Leader
John Pesutto
High Court of Australia
Supreme Court
County Court
Magistrates' Court
Civil and Administrative
Tribunal (VCAT)

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