Victorian Electoral Commission 2025-26 annual report
Summary
The report's own summary: Our year, pages 12 to 13
Generated summary: written by an AI model from the report text and checked against the cited pages.
The Victorian Electoral Commission reported on 2025–26, conducting elections, maintaining enrolment and regulating political funding and donations.
The commission reported preparing for the 2026 state election through in-house ballot production, an Operational Command Centre and an election rehearsal.
It reported website accessibility increasing from 70.5% to 95.9% compared with the previous year.
The commission reported receiving $140.0 million in funding and incurring operational expenses of $129.5 million.
In the body's own words
- Conclusion
Project delivery performance was strong during the reporting period, with our major initiatives meeting election readiness requirements.
Finances 4
Total income from transactions
$139,977 thousand
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Total income from transactions 139,977 124,097
Total expenses from transactions
$(129,547) thousand
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Total expenses from transactions (129,547) (136,657)
Employee expenses
$(69,961) thousand
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Employee expenses 3.1.1 (69,961) (69,175)
Net result from transactions (net operating balance)
$10,430 thousand
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Net result from transactions (net operating balance) 10,430 (12,560)
Staff 1
Total
440.55 FTE
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Total 270 261.45 96 68.43 329.88 297 287.65 187 152.90 440.55
Executives and remuneration 3
Total number of executives (i)
10
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Total number of executives (i) 10 10
Total remuneration
$2,885 thousand
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Total remuneration 2,885 2,919
Compensation of KMPs
$2,061 thousand
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Compensation of KMPs 2026 2025 $’000 $’000 Total 2,061 823
Consultancies 19
Details of consultancies over $10,000
$1,260,390
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Our total expenditure for these consultancies was $1,260,390 (excluding GST)
Details of consultancies under $10,000
$15,929
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Our total expenditure for these consultancies was $15,929 (excluding GST)
Capire Consulting Group Pty Ltd
$49,523
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Capire Consulting Group Pty Ltd Development of Engagement Framework $49,523 $49,523 –
Catherine Dermody
$12,970
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Catherine Dermody Nominated Entities Eligibility advice $12,970 $12,970 –
Clayton Utz
$20,000
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Clayton Utz Legal advisory services $20,000 $20,000 –
Cube Group Management Consulting
$24,000
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Cube Group Management Consulting Corporate Governance Review $24,000 $24,000 –
Deloitte Consulting Pty Ltd
$16,200
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Deloitte Consulting Pty Ltd VEC Website support $16,200 $16,200 –
Grant Thornton Australia Ltd
$71,414
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Grant Thornton Australia Ltd Internal Audit services $87,416 $71,414 $16,002
Great Migrations Overseas
$315,737
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Great Migrations Overseas Roll Management System(RMS) Custom Upgrade Project $315,737 $315,737 –
The Hero Corporation
$80,525
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The Hero Corporation Advertising – media services $2,061,947 $80,525 $1,981,422
KPMG
$39,200
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KPMG Governance and regulatory reform $39,200 $39,200 –
Landell Consulting
$52,762
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Landell Consulting Advertising – media services $52,762 $52,762 –
Nicole Cassar
$18,100
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Nicole Cassar Sponsorship/ partnership evaluation report $18,100 $18,100 –
Official Jargon
$81,840
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Official Jargon Service Sustainability Review Phase 1 & 2 $81,840 $81,840 –
Peter Berry Consultancy Pty Ltd
$31,500
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Peter Berry Consultancy Pty Ltd SEO Pool Psychometric and integrity assessment programs $31,500 $31,500 –
Simply HR Pty Ltd
$11,760
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Simply HR Pty Ltd Workplace investigation and report $11,760 $11,760 –
The Strategic Step TSSA
$100,966
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The Strategic Step TSSA Workforce Planning Strategy and Strategic Workforce Plan $100,966 $100,966 –
VOTAR Partners
$19,425
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VOTAR Partners Review of Business Continuity Arrangements $19,425 $19,425 –
Optimum Media Direction OMD
$314,468
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Optimum Media Direction OMD Advertising – direction on various campaigns $314,468 $314,468 –
Other figures 2
Enrolled voters
4,661,213 people
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The number of Victorians enrolled to vote increased over the year by 65,990 (1.4%) to 4,661,213 at 30 June 2026
Lodgement of outstanding matters with Fines Victoria
282,089
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we lodged 282,089 outstanding non‑voter records with Fines Victoria
About the document
- Edition
- Current edition
- Reading status
- Read by OPAX
- Pages
- 160
- Figures not found in the report
- Executive band; Head remuneration; Staff headcount