2024 Melbourne City Council election

The 2024 Melbourne City Council election will be held in October 2024 to elect nine councillors and a leadership team (consisting of a lord mayor and deputy lord mayor) to the City of Melbourne. The election will be held as part of the statewide local government elections in Victoria, Australia.

Party defections
On 24 June 2022, Bring Back Melbourne councillor Philip Le Liu left the Liberal Party to join the Victorians Party and contest the 2022 Victorian state election. However, the party disbanded on 13 August 2022 before the election was held.

Rohan Leppert trans comments
In March 2022, Greens councillor Rohan Leppert made comments in a private Facebook group about the Andrews state government's gay conversion therapy laws. After the comments were leaked, some Greens members labelled him transphobic and called for him to be expelled from the party.

On 6 April 2024, the Victorian Greens released a statement "in light of recent commentary by Leppert", saying the party "reject[s] any suggestion that trans rights should be up for debate".

Leppert chose in March 2024 not to seek re-election after three terms as a councillor.

Sally Capp resignation
On 28 March 2024, then-lord mayor Sally Capp announced that she would not seek re-election. She resigned as lord mayor on 2 July 2024, and was replaced by deputy lord mayor Nicholas Reece.

Candidates
After being sworn in as lord mayor, Reece confirmed he would seek re-election, although he would not be running as an endorsed Labor Party candidate.

In February 2024, former senator Derryn Hinch announced he would run for lord mayor. However, one month later he withdrew due to the cost of running a campaign.

Perennial candidate Gary Morgan will contest the lord mayoral election.

Councillors
Incumbent councillors are highlighted in bold text.

Retiring councillors

 * Rohan Leppert (Greens) − announced 27 March 2024