2025 Darwin City Council election

2025 Darwin City Council election
23 August 2025
All 13 seats on Darwin City Council
Registered51,716[1][2]
Lord Mayor
Turnout63.2%
  First party Second party Third party
 
IND
Candidate Peter Styles Kon Vatskalis Julie Fraser
Party Independent Independent Independent
Primary vote 6,786 6,226 3,181
Percentage 22.6% 20.7% 10.6%
Swing 22.6 36.5 10.6
TCP 53.3% 46.7%
TCP swing 53.3 46.7
Lord Mayor before election

Kon Vatskalis
Independent

Elected Lord Mayor

Peter Styles
Independent

Councillors
Party Vote % Seats +/–
Independents

Greens

Independent Labor

Independent CLP

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2025 Darwin City Council election was held on 23 August 2025 to elect a lord mayor and twelve councillors to the City of Darwin.[3][4] The election was part of the local government elections held throughout the Northern Territory.[5][6]

In a field of thirteen candidates, Peter Styles defeated incumbent mayor Kon Vatskalis.[7][8] Vatskalis did not concede to Styles, claiming electoral fraud.[9][10]

Retiring councillors

Greens

Independent Labor

Candidates

Lord Mayor

Candidates are listed in the order they appeared on the ballot.

Party Candidate Background
  Independent Kon Vatskalis Lord Mayor of Darwin since 2017[15]
  Independent Peter Styles Former Deputy Chief Minister[16][17]
  Independent Andrew John Arthur Former Darwin councillor[18][19]
  Independent Vicki Bonson Founder of Fannie Bay Free Feeds
  Independent Leah Potter Comedian and candidate lord mayor in 2021
  Independent Sylvia Klonaris Councillor for Waters Ward since 2021[20][21]
  Independent Robin Lawrence Candidate for Lord Mayor in 2021[22]
  Independent Sam Weston Councillor for Lyons Ward since 2023[23][24][25]
  Independent Nicole Brown 2022 City of Darwin Citizen of the Year[26]
  Independent Julie Fraser Union organiser[27]
  Independent Amye Un Councillor for Lyons Ward since 2021[28][29]
  Independent Scarlet D'Arc
  Independent Edwin Joseph Candidate for Richardson Ward in 2017 and 2021[30]

Results

See also: Results of the 2025 Northern Territory local elections

Lord Mayor

2025 Northern Territory local elections: Darwin
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Peter Styles 6,786 22.6
Independent Kon Vatskalis 6,226 20.7
Independent Sylvia Klonaris 3,209 10.7
Independent Julie Fraser 3,181 10.6
Independent Sam Weston 2,908 9.7
Independent Edwin Joseph 2,140 7.1
Independent Nicole Brown 1,440 4.8
Independent Amye Un 1,012 3.4
Independent Andrew John Arthur 1,061 3.5
Independent Leah Potter 909 3.0
Independent Vicki Bonson 516 1.7
Independent Scarlet D'Arc 457 1.5
Independent Robin Lawrence 196 0.7
Total formal votes 30,041 91.9
Informal votes 2,659 8.1
Turnout 32,700 63.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
Independent Peter Styles 15,999 53.3
Independent Julie Fraser 14,043 46.7
Peter Styles gain from Kon Vatskalis  

Chan

2025 Northern Territory local elections: Chan Ward[31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Labor Ed Smelt (elected 1) 2,095 28.0
Independent Julie Fraser (elected 2) 1,873 25.0
Independent Peter Pangquee (elected 3) 1,022 13.6
Greens Ellyane Wall 775 10.3
Independent Gary Strachan 720 9.6
Independent Clarence CJ McCarthy-Grogan 552 7.4
Independent Lenny 335 4.5
Independent Manik Gowda 118 1.6
Total formal votes 7,490 95.2
Informal votes 374 4.8
Turnout 7,864 62.0

Lyons

2025 Northern Territory local elections: Lyons Ward[31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Sam Weston (elected 1) 1,674 23.2
Independent CLP Mick Palmer (elected 2) 1,362 18.8
Independent Brett Hagan 866 12.0
Independent Nicole Brown (elected 3) 793 11.0
Independent Amye Un 659 9.1
Independent Nick O'Loughlin 518 7.2
Independent Vicki Bonson 400 5.5
Independent Scarlet D'Arc 353 4.9
Independent Mark Barnes 342 4.7
Independent Andrew Lee 262 3.6
Total formal votes 7,229 94.0
Informal votes 461 6.0
Turnout 7,690 60.3

Richardson

2025 Northern Territory local elections: Richardson Ward (after Peter Styles exclusion)[31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Labor Jimmy Bouhoris (elected 1) 3,195 38.2
Independent Shani Carson (elected 2) 2,390 28.6
Independent Edwin Joseph (elected 3) 1,769 21.2
Independent Andrew John Arthur 766 9.2
Independent Yulita Villanueva 238 2.8
Independent Peter Styles[a] – –
Total formal votes 8,150 96.3
Informal votes 314 3.7
Turnout 8,464 66.1

Total formal and informal votes are based on results prior to the exclusion of Peter Styles.

Waters

2025 Northern Territory local elections: Waters Ward
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Sylvia Klonaris (elected 1) 2,170 28.0
Independent Patrik Ralph (elected 2) 1,958 25.3
Independent Kim Farrar (elected 3) 1,246 16.1
Independent Mirella Fejo 960 12.4
Independent Tejinder Singh 610 7.9
Independent Robin Lawrence 354 4.6
Independent Manoli Papathomas 303 3.9
Independent Otto Kainulainen 139 1.8
Total formal votes 7,740 94.7
Informal votes 436 5.3
Turnout 8,176 60.7

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Because Peter Styles was elected Lord Mayor, his 1,915 votes (23.5%) in the Richardson Ward councillor election were automatically distributed to other candidates based on the preferences allocated by voters.

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