1985 Brisbane City Council election

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1985 Brisbane City Council election
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Candidate Sallyanne Atkinson Roy Harvey
Party Liberal Labor
Lord Mayor before election

Roy Harvey
Labor

Subsequent Lord Mayor

Sallyanne Atkinson
Liberal

All 26 wards on the City Council
13 wards needed for a majority
PartyLeaderVote %Seats+/–
Liberal Sallyanne Atkinson 52.015
Labor Roy Harvey
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 1985 Brisbane City Council election was held on 30 March 1985 to elect a lord mayor and 26 aldermen to the City of Brisbane. [1] The election was held as part of the statewide local government elections in Queensland, Australia. [2]

Contents

The incumbent Labor Party administration was defeated, with the Liberal Party winning more than 50% of the vote. Liberal candidate Sallyanne Atkinson defeated Roy Harvey in the lord mayoral election. [2] As of 2024, Atkinson is the first and only female Lord Mayor of Brisbane. [3]

This was the first and only election contested by the Brisbane Green Party, the predecessor to the Queensland Greens. The party contested the lord mayorship and four wards, but did not have any victories. [4]

Future lord mayor Graham Quirk was elected in Rochedale Ward at this election. [5]

Results

Ward summary

WardPartyAldermanMargin (%) [6]
Bracken Ridge Liberal Keith Murray [7] 1.5
Breakfast Creek Liberal 6.9
Camp Hill Liberal 2.7
Carina Labor 3.4
Chermside Liberal 1.3
Coopers Plains Labor 2.4
Deagon Labor Ken Leese [8] 8.2
Doboy Labor John Campbell [9] 11.2
Eagle Farm Labor Patricia Vaughan10.8
Ekibin Liberal 7.3
Enoggera Labor Brian Mellifont [10] 5.7
Fairfield Liberal Norman Rose5.2
Holland Park Liberal Gail Chiconi [11] 2.4
Inala Labor 10.8
Jamboree Liberal Phil Denman [12] 18.7
Kalinga Liberal 7.7
Kianawah Labor Don Randall12.1
McDowall Liberal John Goss [13] 11.1
Paddington Labor 6.0
Pullenvale Liberal 27.2
Rochedale Liberal Graham Quirk [5] 12.3
Runcorn Liberal Bob Ward [14] 5.1
Spring Hill Labor Ian Brusasco 4.9
Taringa Liberal Denver Beanland [15] 23.0
The Gabba Labor 4.5
The Gap Liberal Brian Hallinan [16] 11.5

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  2. 1 2 "Legislative Assembly WEDNESDAY, 3 APRIL 1985" (PDF). Parliament of Queensland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 April 2024. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  3. ↑ "The team that helped Sallyanne Atkinson make history". Brisbane Times. 24 August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 April 2024. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  4. ↑ Eddy, Elizabeth. "The green movement in Southeast Queensland: The environment, institutional failure, and social conflict, p.235". espace.library.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  5. 1 2 "Graham Quirk joins Racing Queensland board". Brisbane Times. 4 July 2019. He joined the council in 1985 as councillor for the Rochedale Ward, rising to become deputy mayor under Campbell Newman before holding the lord mayoralty.
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  7. ↑ "Bracken Ridge - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 2024-04-02. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  8. ↑ "Deagon (Key seat) - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 2024-04-02. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  9. ↑ "Doboy (Key seat) - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 2024-04-02. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  10. ↑ "Enoggera (Key seat) - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 2024-04-02. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  11. ↑ "Holland Park - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 2024-04-02. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  12. ↑ "Jamboree (Key seat) - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 2024-04-03. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  13. ↑ "McDowall - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 2024-04-02. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  14. ↑ "Runcorn - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 2024-04-04. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  15. ↑ "Denver Edward Beanland". The Family of Thomas and Lydia Emma Kinton Beanland. Denver Beanland. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
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