The City of Ballarat is a
local government area
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in the west of the state of
Victoria, Australia. It covers an area of and, in June 2023, had a population of 118,137. It is primarily urban with the vast majority of its population living in the
Greater Ballarat urban area, while other significant settlements within the LGA include
Buninyong,
Waubra,
Learmonth and
Addington. It was formed on 6 May 1994 from the amalgamation of the City of Ballarat,
Shire of Ballarat,
Borough of Sebastopol and parts of the
Shire of Bungaree,
Shire of Buninyong,
Shire of Grenville
The Shire of Grenville was a local government area southwest of the regional city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1861 until 1994.
History
Grenville was first incorporated as a road district ...
and
Shire of Ripon.
The city is governed and administered by the Ballarat City Council; its
seat of local government
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and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Ballarat, it also has a service centre located in Buninyong. The city is named after the main urban settlement lying in the centre-south of the LGA, Ballarat, which is also the LGA's most populous urban area with a population of 105,471.
[ Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018.]
Council
Current composition
The council is composed of three wards and nine councillors, with three councillors per ward elected to represent each ward.
The current Council, elected in 2020, in order of election by ward, is:
Administration and governance
The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Ballarat Town Hall Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre in Ballarat, and its service centre in Buninyong.
The council's main offices are in a modern extension behind the Town Hall called The Phoenix. In 2009 the council voted to move to a new headquarters at Civic Hall on Mair Street, which would turn the heritage listed Town Hall building into a public general purpose venue.
2023 Council Review
Prior to the
2024 Election, The
Victorian Electoral Commission conducted a review into the electoral structure of multiple Victorian Councils including the City of Ballarat. As part of this review it was deemed that from the 2024 Election, the council would take up nine single-councillor wards, namely:
* Alfredton Ward
* Brown Hill Ward
* Buninyong Ward
* Central Ward
* Delacombe Ward
* Golden Point Ward
* North Ward
* Sebastopol Ward
* Wendouree Ward
Election results
2024
2020
2016
2012
Central Ward
North
South
Townships and localities
The 2021 census, the city had a population of 113,763 up from 101,686 in the 2016 census
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LGA
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* – ''Not noted in 2016 Census''
Sister cities
The City of Ballarat's sister cities are:
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Inagawa, Hyōgo, Japan
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Ainaro, East Timor
See also
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List of localities in Victoria
This is a list of locality names and populated place names in the state of Victoria, Australia, outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. It is organised by region from the south-west of the state to the east and, for convenience, is sectioned ...
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Ballarat
Ballarat ( ) () is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Ballarat had a population of 111,973, making it the third-largest urban inland city in Australia and the third-largest city in Victoria.
Within mo ...
References
External links
Ballarat City Council official websiteMetlink local public transport mapLink to Land Victoria interactive maps
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Local government areas of Victoria (state)
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