2016 Brisbane City Council election

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2016 Brisbane City Council election
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  2012 19 March 2016 (2016-03-19) 2020  
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
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Candidate Graham Quirk Rod HardingBen Pennings
Party Liberal National Labor Greens
Popular vote325,714195,05563,483
Percentage53.4%32.0%10.4%
SwingDecrease2.svg 8.6ppIncrease2.svg 6.8ppDecrease2.svg 0.3pp
TPP 59.3%40.7%
TPP swingDecrease2.svg 9.2ppIncrease2.svg 9.2pp

Lord Mayor of Brisbane before election

Graham Quirk
Liberal National

Subsequent Lord Mayor

Graham Quirk
Liberal National


All 26 wards on the City Council
13 wards needed for a majority
PartyLeaderVote %Seats+/–
Liberal National Graham Quirk 49.8819+1
Labor Rod Harding33.225−2
Greens Ben Pennings14.491+1
Independents 2.4210
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Results by ward

The 2016 Brisbane City Council election was held on 19 March 2016 to elect a lord mayor and 26 councillors to the City of Brisbane. The election was held as part of the statewide local government elections in Queensland, Australia.

Contents

The election resulted in the re-election of the Liberal National Party to a majority in the chamber, with incumbent LNP Lord Mayor Graham Quirk also being returned. The Liberal Nationals increased their representation by one ward to a total of 19 of 26. The Lord Mayoral result of 59.3% of the two-party-preferred vote for Quirk was a reduction from the 69.5% result at the previous election.

The main opposition party, the Labor Party was reduced to 5 wards, its lowest number in over a decade.

The Queensland Greens won their first ward in this election, with Jonathan Sri being elected in The Gabba Ward. [1]

Results

Mayor

2016 Queensland mayoral elections: Brisbane [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal National Graham Quirk 325,71453.38−8.56
Labor Rod Harding195,05531.96+6.80
Greens Ben Pennings63,48310.40−0.30
Consumer Rights Jeffrey Hodges12,9602.12+2.12
People DecideKarel Boele5,1950.85+0.85
Independent Jim Eldridge4,7640.78+0.78
Independent Jarrod Wirth3,0630.50+0.50
Total formal votes610,234
Informal votes15,287
Turnout 625,521
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal National Graham Quirk336,45059.31−9.19
Labor Rod Harding230,84140.69+9.19
Liberal National hold Swing
Lord Mayoral popular vote
LNP
53.4%
Labor
32.0%
Greens
10.4%
Other
4.2%

Councillors

2016 Queensland local elections: Brisbane [3]
PartyVotes %SwingSeatsChange
  Liberal National 303,05549.88−7.219Increase2.svg 1
  Labor 201,83533.22+1.25Decrease2.svg 2
  Greens 88,00814.49+6.01Increase2.svg 1
  Independent 13,5222.22−0.201Steady2.svg
 People Decide1,1550.19+0.190Steady2.svg
 Formal votes607,575
Ward popular vote
LNP
49.88%
Labor
33.22%
Greens
14.49%
IND
2.42%
Council Wards
LNP
73.07%
Labor
19.23%
Greens
3.84%
Other
3.84%

Ward summary

Ward [4] PartyCouncillorMargin (%)
Bracken Ridge LNP Amanda Cooper10.6
Calamvale LNP Angela Owen-Taylor14.7
Central LNP Vicki Howard8.2
Chandler LNP Adrian Schrinner 24.6
Coorparoo LNP Ian McKenzie3.0
Deagon Labor Jared Cassidy3.7
Doboy LNP Ryan Murphy4.3
Enoggera LNP Andrew Wines4.8
Forest Lake Labor Charles Strunk5.3
Hamilton LNP David McLachlan17.6
Holland Park LNP Krista Adams4.8
Jamboree LNP Matthew Bourke19.1
MacGregor LNP Steven Huang13.7
Marchant LNP Fiona King8.3
McDowall LNP Norm Wyndham15.2
Moorooka Labor Steve Griffiths13.7
Morningside Labor Shayne Sutton 6.6
Northgate LNP Adam Allan1.7
Paddington LNP Peter Matic5.8
Pullenvale LNP Kate Richards18.1
Runcorn LNP Kim Marx8.0
Tennyson IndependentNicole Johnston26.3
The Gabba Greens Jonathan Sri 5.0
The Gap LNP Steven Toomey5.7
Walter Taylor LNP Julian Simmonds 16.5
Wynnum Manly Labor Peter Cumming11.6

References

  1. Robertson, Joshua (23 March 2016). "Queensland elects its first Greens councillor, Jonathan Sri". Guardian Australia . Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  2. "Lord Mayor Election - ABC News". ABC News . ABC . Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  3. "Party Totals". ABC News.
  4. "Wards". ABC News. Retrieved 4 March 2017.