[3] Labor No overall control Cessnock City Council is composed of four wards electing three councillors, each, as well as a directly-elected mayor.

[4] In January 2024, D Ward councillor Paul Paynter left Cessnock Independents to join the Liberal Party, which won three seats in 2021.

Maitland City Council is composed of four three-member wards, totalling 12 councillors, as well as a directly-elected mayor.

Muswellbrook Shire Council is composed of twelve councillors elected proportionally to a single ward.

[39] All councillors elected in 2021 were re-elected in 2022 with the exception of independent Belinda Charlton, who was defeated by Labor's Sarah Johnstone.

Councillor Malinda McLachlan left the SFFP in December 2022 after comments made by party leader Robert Borsak.

In December 2022, Greens councillor Sue Abbott resigned from council after she was reported to the Office of Local Government while on compassionate leave following the death of her son.

[42] A countback was won by independent Belinda McKenzie, and the Greens are not re-contesting Upper Hunter.