Rural City of Ararat

Rural City of Ararat
Local government area
Location in Victoria
Location in Victoria
Official logo of Rural City of Ararat
CountryAustralia
StateVictoria
RegionGrampians
Established1994
Council seatArarat
Government
 • Mayoro Armstrong[1]
 • State electorates
 • Federal division
Area
[2]
 • Total
4,211 km2 (1,626 sq mi)
Population
 • Total11,880 (2021)
 • Density2.8212/km2 (7.307/sq mi)
Gazetted23 September 1994[3]
WebsiteRural City of Ararat
LGAs around Rural City of Ararat
Northern Grampians Northern Grampians Pyrenees
Southern Grampians Rural City of Ararat Pyrenees
Moyne Moyne Corangamite
Ararat Rural City Council offices – 21 Vincent Street, Ararat

The Rural City of Ararat is an Australian local government area located in the western part of the state of Victoria. It covers an area of 4,211 square kilometres (1,626 mi2) and in the 2021 had a population of 11,880.[4] The area includes the towns of Ararat, Lake Bolac, Moyston, Pomonal, Streatham, Tatyoon, Wickliffe and Willaura.

The rural city is governed and administered by the Ararat Rural City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Ararat. The rural city is named after the main urban settlement located in the north of the LGA, that is Ararat, which is also the LGA's most populous urban centre with a population of 8,076.[5]

The traditional owners of the area are the Djab Wurrung.[6]

History

The Rural City of Ararat was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the City of Ararat, Shire of Ararat, and the Armstrong district of the Shire of Stawell.[3][7]

In January 1996, after a further Local Government Board review, the Rural City of Ararat gained about 500 km2 of farmland in the Wickliffe, Lake Bolac and Nerrin Nerrin districts from the Shire of Moyne and Shire of Southern Grampians.[8]

The Rural City's predecessor LGAs (green) as they were in 1994. The administrative centres of the former LGAs are marked by green dots.
🞲 Area annexed to the Rural City in 1996

Council

Current composition

The council is composed of seven councillors elected to represent an unsubdivided municipality.[9] Composition as of September 2022:

WardCouncillorNotes
Unsubdivided  Cr Gwenda Allgood
 Cr Jo ArmstrongMayor
 Cr Peter Beales
 Cr William Waterston
 Cr Bob SandersDeputy Mayor
 Cr Henry Burridge
 Cr Rob Armstrong

Administration and governance

The Ararat Rural City Council meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 6pm in the Council Chamber at the Ararat Shire Hall, 239 Barkly Street, Ararat. The Ararat Municipal Offices, 59 Vincent Street, Ararat, is the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at this location and is open from 8.15am to 5.15pm on week days.

Election results

2024

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Victorian local elections in Grampians § Ararat results.[edit]
2024 Victorian local elections: Ararat
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent National Jo Armstrong (elected 1) 1,757 26.51 −11.98
Independent Teli Kaur (elected 3) 743 11.21
Independent Bob Sanders (elected 2) 688 10.38 +0.22
Independent Luke Matthew Preston (elected 5) 663 10.00
Independent Peter Joyce (elected 4) 592 8.93
Independent Amanda Mead 497 7.50
Independent Bill Waterston (elected 6) 486 7.33 −4.65
Independent Rob Armstrong (elected 7) 343 5.18 +1.08
Independent Daryl Scherger 286 4.32
Independent Osman Kokcu 258 3.89
Independent Peter Beales 180 2.72 −1.69
Victorian Socialists Fiona Tipping 134 2.02
Total formal votes 6,627 95.22 +0.68
Informal votes 333 4.78 −0.68
Turnout 6,960 83.54 −0.26

2020

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Victorian local elections in Grampians § Ararat.[edit]
2020 Victorian local elections: Ararat[10][11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent National Jo Armstrong (elected 1) 2,770 38.49
Independent William Waterston (elected 3) 862 11.98
Independent Bob Sanders (elected 4) 731 10.16
Independent Gwenda Allgood (elected 6) 538 7.48
Independent Henry Burridge (elected 5) 537 7.46
Independent Neil Manning 351 4.88
Independent Peter Beales (elected 2) 317 4.41
Independent Rob Armstrong (elected 7) 295 4.10
Independent Jane Goninon 284 3.95
Independent Colin McKenzie 212 2.95
Independent Bernardine Atkinson 165 2.29
Independent Cecilia Fresle 134 1.86
Total formal votes 7,196 95.90
Informal votes 308 4.10
Turnout 7,504 83.80

Townships and localities

The 2021 census, the rural city had a population of 11,880 up from 11,600 in the 2016 census[12]

Population
Locality20162021
Ararat8,2978,500
Armstrong8890
Ballyrogan6777
Bayindeen2122
Black Range^189274
Bornes Hill3033
Buangor^103112
Carranballac^4243
Cathcart91110
Chatsworth^4449
Crowlands^8972
Denicull Creek2719
Dobie4233
Dunkeld^678688
Dunneworthy^1915
Elmhurst^183185
Eversley^1014
Glenlogie^3329
Glenthompson^232256
Great Western^400425
Halls Gap^430495
Lake Bolac330368
Langi Logan2523
Mafeking1920
Maroona11080
Middle Creek^1922
Mininera6251
Mount Cole2121
Mount Cole Creek510
Moyston348403
Narrapumelap South3031
Nerrin Nerrin^3848
Norval3840
Pomonal^322356
Pura Pura^3747
Rhymney6056
Rocky Point04
Rossbridge3227
Stavely3747
Stoneleigh^4545
Streatham^156158
Tatyoon130130
Warrak6668
Westmere4062
Wickliffe113123
Willaura530439
Willaura North3033
Woorndoo^169160
Yalla-Y-Poora1613

^ - Territory divided with another LGA

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Councillor Profiles". Ararat Rural City. Ararat Rural City. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "3218.0 – Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2017-18: Population Estimates by Local Government Area (ASGS 2018), 2017 to 2018". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australian Bureau of Statistics. 27 March 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018.
  3. 1 2 Victoria Government Gazette – Online Archive (1837–1997). "S63 of 1994: Order estg the Rural City of Ararat". State Library of Victoria. State Government of Victoria (published 23 September 1994). pp. 23–29. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "2021 Ararat, Census All persons QuickStats | Australian Bureau of Statistics". abs.gov.au. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  5. ↑ Census QuickStats (2011). "Ararat (SS) – SSC20024". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Government of Australia. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  6. ↑ managerARArat213 (1 August 2016). "History". www.ararat.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 28 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ Victoria Government Gazette – Online Archive (1837–1997). "S4 of 1995: Order altg (Part 3) the Rural City of Ararat". State Library of Victoria. State Government of Victoria (published 20 January 1995). pp. 2–3. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  8. ↑ "Order altering the municipal districts of the Ararat Rural City Council and the Moyne and Southern Grampians Shire Councils" (PDF). Victoria Government Gazette. Victorian Government Printer. 25 January 1996. p. 1996:202.
  9. ↑ Victorian Electoral Commission. "Ararat Rural City Council election results 2020". Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  10. ↑ "Ararat Rural City Council election results 2020". Victorian Electoral Commission.
  11. ↑ "Jo Armstrong appointed to Victorian Nationals executive". The Ararat Advertiser.
  12. ↑ "Census | Australian Bureau of Statistics". www.abs.gov.au. 11 January 2023.

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