Cr Sameer Pandey has been elected the new Lord Mayor of Parramatta for the remainder of the current term, which expires in September.
The election was required after Cr Donna Davis was elected to state parliament earlier this year. While Cr Davis has relinquished the lord mayoralty, she will continue as a councillor until elections next year.
Cr Pandey’s election to the lord mayoralty means a further election for Deputy Lord Mayor will be held next month.
He is the city’s first Lord Mayor of Indian origin.