List of mayors of Merri-bek
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|incumbent = Helen Davidson
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|appointer = Merri-bek City Council
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This is a list of the mayors of the City of Merri-bek (known as the City of Moreland until September 2022), a local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, which was formed in 1994 by the amalgamation of the City of Brunswick, City of Coburg, and the southern part of the City of Broadmeadows.{{cite web |title=Past Mayors |url=http://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/about-council/councillors/past-councillors/past-mayors.html |publisher=Moreland City Council |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110313013813/http://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/about-council/councillors/past-councillors/past-mayors.html |archive-date=13 March 2011}}{{cite web |title=Helen Davidson tipped to be elected Moreland mayor |url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north-west/helen-davidson-tipped-to-be-elected-moreland-mayor/news-story/45df4be5d91b7ef3e33b044af0e50c51 |publisher=Herald Sun}}
The current mayor is Helen Davidson, who was voted into the position by councillors on 20 November 2024.
Mayors
=1996–present=
| class="wikitable" | ||||||
| No. | Portrait | Mayor (Ward) | Party | Term start | Term end | colspan="3" | Council control |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 1
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Mike Hill | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | March 1996 | align="center" | March 1997 | rowspan="17" style="background-color:#F00011; border-bottom:solid 0 gray"| ! rowspan="17" style="font-weight:normal"|Labor majority | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 2
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Rod Higgins | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | March 1997 | align="center" | March 1998 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 3
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Anthony Helou | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | March 1998 | align="center" | March 1999 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 4
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Andrew Rowe | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | March 1999 | align="center" | March 2000 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 5
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Stella Kariofyllidis | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | March 2000 | align="center" | March 2001 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 6
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Robert Larocca | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | March 2001 | align="center" | March 2002 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 7
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Joe Caputo | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | March 2002 | align="center" | March 2003 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 8
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Joe Ficarra | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | March 2003 | align="center" | March 2004 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | (3)
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Anthony Helou | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | March 2004 | align="center" | November 2004{{efn|From 1996 until 2004, the annual election of the mayor for the following 12 months occurred in March. New legislation effective from 2004 onwards changed the date of the election of the mayor to November or December. There was a truncated transitional term of office from March to November 2004.}} | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 9
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Mark Higginbotham | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | November 2004 | align="center" | November 2005 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | (3)
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Anthony Helou | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | November 2005 | align="center" | November 2006 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 10
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Mark O'Brien | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | November 2006 | align="center" | November 2007 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | (7)
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Joe Caputo | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | November 2007 | align="center" | November 2008 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 11
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Lambros Tapinos | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | November 2008 | align="center" | November 2009 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | (5)
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Stella Kariofyllidis | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | November 2009 | align="center" | November 2010 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 12
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Oscar Yildiz | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | November 2010 | align="center" | November 2011 | ||||||
| style="background:#FDB537; color:white" | 13
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | John Kavanagh | align="center" | Democratic Labour | align="center" | November 2011 | align="center" | November 2012 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | (12)
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Oscar Yildiz | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | November 2012 | align="center" | November 2013 | rowspan="19" style="background-color:#000000; border-bottom:solid 0 gray"| ! rowspan="19" style="font-weight:normal"|No overall control | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | (11)
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Lambros Tapinos | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | November 2013 | align="center" | November 2014 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 14
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Meghan Hopper | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | November 2014 | align="center" | November 2015 | ||||||
| style="background:#11C25C; color:white" | 15
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Samantha Ratnam | align="center" | Greens | align="center" | November 2015 | align="center" | November 2016 | ||||||
| style="background:#888888; color:white" | 16
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Helen Davidson | align="center" | Independent | align="center" | November 2016 | align="center" | November 2017 | ||||||
| style="background:#888888; color:white" | (13)
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | John Kavanagh | align="center" | Independent | align="center" | November 2017 | align="center" | November 2018 | ||||||
| style="background:#11C25C; color:white" | 17
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Natalie Abboud | align="center" | Greens | align="center" | November 2018 | align="center" | November 2019 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | (11)
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Lambros Tapinos | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | November 2019 | align="center" | November 2020 | ||||||
| style="background:#F00011; color:white" | 18
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Annalivia Carli Hannan | align="center" | Labor | align="center" | November 2020 | align="center" | 29 November 2021 | ||||||
| style="background:#11C25C; color:white" | 19
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Mark Riley | align="center" | Greens | align="center" | 29 November 2021 | align="center" | 29 November 2022 | ||||||
| style="background:#11C25C; color:white" | 20
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Angelica Panopoulos | align="center" | Greens | align="center" | 29 November 2022 | align="center" | 15 November 2023 | ||||||
| style="background:#11C25C; color:white" | 20
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Adam Pulford | align="center" | Greens | align="center" | 15 November 2023 | align="center" | November 2024 | ||||||
| style="background:#888888; color:white" | 21
| align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Helen Davidson | align="center" | Independent | align="center" | 20 November 2024 | align="center" | Incumbent |
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