Current composition The council has nine elected Councillors, each representing a municipal electoral ward. The current Council, elected in November 2024, 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==