The Surf Coast Shire is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state. It covers an area of 1,553 square kilometres (600 sq mi). It had a population of 32,251 in June 2018. It includes the towns of Aireys Inlet, Anglesea, Lorne, Moriac, Torquay and Winchelsea. It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Winchelsea, Shire of Barrabool and part of the former City of South Barwon, which was, at that point, part of the City of Greater Geelong.

The Shire is governed and administered by the Surf Coast Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Torquay. The Shire is named after its location on the popular surf coast of Victoria.

Post-2008, following an electoral representation review, the decision was made to re-subdivide the municipality into four wards, the current wards are Torquay, Anglesea, Winchelsea and Lorne. Between 2004 and 2008, the Shire was an unsubdivided municipality and as a result, the entire municipality voted to elect nine councillors. Between 1996 and 2004, the municipality was subdivided into six wards, where three councillors per ward were elected from the Torquay and Anglesea wards, and one councillor per ward was elected from the Lorne, Winchelsea, Moriac and Aireys Inlet wards. A position of Deputy Mayor was created in 2004, but it was abolished for the 2005 mayoral election.

The council is composed of four wards and nine councillors, with four councillors elected to represent the Torquay Ward, two councillors per ward elected to represent each of the Anglesea and Winchelsea wards, and one councillor elected to represent the Lorne Ward.

Ward	Councillor		Affiliation	Notes
Anglesea		Libby Stapleton	Independent
		Mike Bodsworth	Independent	Deputy Mayor
Lorne		Gary Allen	Independent
Torquay		Liz Pattison	Independent	Mayor
		Paul Barker	Libertarian
		Rose Hodge	Independent Labor
		Kate Gazzard	Greens
Winchelsea		Adrian Schonfelder	Independent Labor
		Heather Wellington	Independent

• Cr Noel Bates (1995–1997)
• Cr Henry Love (1997–1998)
• Cr Julie Hansen (1998–2000)
• Cr Mike Barrow (2000–2001)
• Cr Beth Davidson (2001–2004)
• Cr Keith Grossman (2004–2005)
• Cr Libby Mears (2005–2006)
• Cr Rose Hodge (2006–2007)
• Cr Dean Webster (2007–2008)
• Cr Libby Mears (2008–2009)
• Cr Libby Coker (2009–2010)
• Cr Dean Webster (2010–2011)
• Cr Brian McKiterick (2011–2012)
• Cr Libby Coker (2012–2013)
• Cr Rose Hodge (2013–2014)
• Cr Margot Smith (2014–2015)
• Cr Rose Hodge (2015–2016)
• Cr Brian McKiterick (2016-2017)
• Cr David Bell (2017-2018)
• Cr Rose Hodge (2018–2020)
• Cr Libby Stapleton (2020–2022)
• Cr Liz Pattison (2022–Present)

The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Torquay Municipal Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at its Municipal Office in Torquay.

Surf Coast Shire: Anglesea Ward

Party			Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor		Libby Coker	2,504	48.50
	Independent		Margot Ann Smith	1,393	27.00
	Independent		Jenna Robinson	1,268	24.6
Turnout			6,891	76.20%
	Labor hold			Swing
	Independent hold			Swing

Surf Coast Shire: Torquay Ward

Party			Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor		Rose Hodge	2,866	27.20
	Independent		David Bell	1,962	18.60
	Liberal		Brian McKiterick	1,268	16.00
	Greens		Marian Smedley	1,529	14.50
	Independent		Martin Paul Duke	1,522	14.20
	Independent		Joe Remenyi	993	9.40
Turnout			19,367	68.96%
	Labor hold			Swing
	Independent hold			Swing
	Liberal hold			Swing
	Independent gain from Greens			Swing

According to the 2021 census, the shire had a population of 37,694, up from 29,397 in the 2016 census.

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• List of localities (Victoria)

• Surf Coast Shire Council official website
• Great Ocean Road Journey, Victoria, Australia (replaces the Surf Coast Tourist website)
• Metlink local public transport map
• Link to Land Victoria interactive maps
• The Anglesea & District Historical Society Inc.

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