Английская Википедия:2018 Lord Mayor of Melbourne by-election

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A by-election to elect the Lord Mayor of Melbourne took place from 23 April until 11 May 2018, following the resignation of the 103rd Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle. The election used a preferential voting system and was held by postal ballot.

Background

The City of Melbourne is a local government municipality consisting of nine councillors, a lord mayor and a deputy lord mayor, who are elected for a four-year term. The incumbent lord mayor, Robert Doyle, was first elected in the 2008 City of Melbourne election.

On 15 December 2017, Cr Tessa Sullivan resigned from the council. Sullivan, who had been elected on the Team Doyle ticket alongside Doyle, lodged a complaint with the City of Melbourne chief executive Ben Rimmer. In her complaint, Sullivan alleged that Doyle had sexually harassed and indecently assaulted her. On 17 December, Doyle released a statement on Twitter, which said he had not been informed of the details of the allegations. He announced he would take a month's leave while an investigation was carried out, stressing that his standing aside "must not be interpreted as any concession or admission".

Further allegations were made against Doyle in January 2018. On 4 February 2018, Doyle resigned as Lord Mayor of Melbourne.

Candidates

The candidates for lord mayor at the by-election were:

Candidates (14) in ballot paper order
Party		Candidate	Background
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Independent	Qun Xie	Taxation officer, accountant, economist and company executive director.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Independent	Sally Capp	Former CEO of the Committee for Melbourne, former Victorian Agent-General in London.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Independent	Luke Downing
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Greens	Шаблон:Nowrap	City of Melbourne councillor and Chair of the Arts, Culture, and Heritage portfolios.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Independent	Sally Warhaft	Broadcaster, anthropologist and writer involved with the Wheeler Centre.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Independent	Alex Macdonald	Local business owner.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Independent	Allan Watson	Former councillor and Lord Mayor, 1993.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Labor	Jennifer Yang	Former City of Manningham mayor and businesswoman.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Independent	Katie Sfetkidis	Independent artist.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Independent	Gary Morgan	Executive chairman of Roy Morgan Research and pollster.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Independent	Nathalie Nicole O'Sughrue	Employment Services Industry, Business coach.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Independent	Michael Burge	Psychologist, Liberal candidate for Thomastown in the 2010 Victorian state election, OAM.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Liberal	Ken Ong	Businessman and former City of Melbourne councillor.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Animal Justice Party	Bruce Poon