The Municipality of Leichhardt was a local government area in the inner-west region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The suburbs of Glebe, Forest Lodge and parts of Annandale were transferred from Leichhardt to the City of Sydney.

The last election was held on 8 September 2012, and the final makeup of the council was as follows:[5][6][7][8] The Municipality of Leichhardt operates over land that prehistorically belonged to the Gadigal and Wangal people, of the Eora nation.

[citation needed] Leichhardt is named after the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, who in the 1840s was feted for his 4,800 kilometres (3,000 mi) expedition in search of an overland route from southern Queensland to Port Essington, a British settlement on the far northern coast of Australia that is approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) to the north of the modern city of Darwin.

He later famously vanished without trace on his attempt to cross the continent from the Darling Downs to the Swan River Colony on the Western Australia coast.

In 2003, the municipal boundary was again changed, to exclude the Annandale Foreshore (land between The Crescent and Rozelle Bay), Glebe and Forest Lodge, which are now part of the City of Sydney.

Callan Park in Lilyfield, bordering Iron Cove, offers open space for walking, cycling and passive recreation.

^a  Census data for 2001 contains information for the suburbs of Glebe, Forest Lodge and parts of Annandale that were transferred from Leichhardt to the City of Sydney in 2003.