2020 Ipswich City Council election

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2020 Ipswich City Council election
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Turnout78.64% (mayoral election)
Mayor
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
IND
IND
 PatWalsh.png
Candidate Teresa Harding David MartinPat Walsh
Party Ind. LNP Independent Greens
Popular vote54,72138,02914,411
Percentage45.62%31.70%14.80%
SwingIncrease2.svg 4.51Increase2.svg 8.04Increase2.svg 8.07
2CP 62.98%37.02%
2CP swingIncrease2.svg 62.98Increase2.svg 37.02
Administrator before election

Greg Chemello
Independent

Elected mayor

Teresa Harding
Independent LNP

Councillors
All 9 members on the City Council (including the Mayor)
5 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader%Seats+/–
Independent Labor N/A40.412−4
Your Voice Of Experience Paul Tully20.502+2
Independent N/A16.4940
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2020 Ipswich City Council election was held on 28 March 2020 to elect a mayor and eight councillors to the City of Ipswich. The election was held as part of the statewide local elections in Queensland, Australia. [1]

Contents

Teresa Harding was elected mayor with 62.98% of the vote after preferences, becoming the first non-Labor Party aligned Ipswich mayor in 50 years. [2]

The election saw significant changes to the council's electoral system, and followed its dismissal in August 2018. [3]

Background

2017 mayoral by-election

On 6 June 2017, mayor Paul Pisasale announced his resignation, citing a decline in his health due to multiple sclerosis. The announcement came one day after his office was searched by the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission and police. [4]

Andrew Antoniolli was elected mayor with 54.44% of the vote after preferences. [5]

2018 dismissal

In May 2018, Antoniolli was charged with seven counts of corruption forcing him to stand down and administrators to take over Ipswich City Council. [4] [6]

In August 2018, the Queensland Government passed legislation to dismiss all Ipswich councillors and replace them with an administrator. [7] The dismissal officially came into effect on 21 August. [8]

Greg Chemello was appointed as administrator to serve for the rest of the term. [9]

Electoral system

Prior to 2020, Ipswich City Council was composed of a directly elected mayor and 10 single-member wards (or divisions), both using optional preferential voting. [3]

In July 2019, it was announced that the 10 single-member wards would be replaced by four two-member wards, reducing the total amount of councillors to eight. [3] Preferential voting was removed and replaced by plurality block voting (also referred to as first-past-the-post by the Electoral Commission), where voters are only required to mark the same amount of candidates as there are positions to be elected − in the case of Ipswich, two candidates. [10] [11]

The electoral system for mayor was unchanged. [3]

Candidates

Teresa Harding, a government contractor and former two-time Liberal National candidate for Blair, contested the mayoral election without any party endorsement. [2]

Two Labor Party members, Mark Williams and Ursula Monsiegneur, contested the mayoral election as Independent Labor candidates. [12] [13]

Pat Walsh was endorsed by the Greens to contest the mayoralty. The Liberal Democrats endorsed two councillor candidates, husband and wife Anthony and Jacinta Bull. [14]

Paul Tully, who served as a councillor for 39 years until its dismissal, led the "Your Voice Of Experience" ticket in Division 2. [15]

Results

Mayor

This section is an excerpt from 2020 Queensland mayoral elections § Ipswich.[ edit ]
2020 Queensland mayoral elections: Ipswich [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent LNP Teresa Harding 40,02641.11+41.11
Independent David Martin23,03723.66+23.66
Greens Pat Walsh14,41114.80+8.07
Independent Labor Mark Williams7,0357.23+7.23
Independent Chris Smith6,1026.27+6.27
Independent Labor Ursula Monsiegneur5,2765.42+5.42
Independent Karakan Kochardy1,4661.51+1.51
Turnout 104,87978.64
Two-candidate-preferred result
Independent LNP Teresa Harding 42,54262.98+62.98
Independent David Martin25,00337.02+37.02
Independent LNP gain from Independent Labor Swing N/A

Councillors

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Queensland local elections § Ipswich.[ edit ]
2020 Queensland local elections: Ipswich
PartyVotes %SwingSeatsChange
  Independent Labor 37,28040.412Decrease2.svg 4
  Your Voice of Experience 18,91720.50+20.502Increase2.svg 2
  Independent 15,21216.494Steady2.svg
  Team WORK 7,4838.110Steady2.svg
  Liberal Democrats 7,4338.060Steady2.svg
  Independent LNP 5,9316.430Steady2.svg
 Formal votes184,512100.0
 Formal ballots92,25688.73
 Informal ballots11,72011.27
 Total103,976100.08Decrease2.svg 2
 Registered voters / turnout133,36877.96

Division 1

2020 Queensland local elections: Division 1 [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Sheila Ireland (elected)8,28019.64
Independent Labor Jacob Madsen (elected)7,93618.82
Independent LNP Simon Ingram5,93114.07
Independent Labor Pye Augustine5,56013.19
Independent Kendal Newman4,53510.76
Independent Jim Thompson4,1559.85
Independent Conny Turni2,9707.04
Independent Will Jankovic2,7996.64
Turnout 24,10678.43
Independent win(new ward)
Independent Labor win(new ward)

Division 2

2020 Queensland local elections: Division 2 [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Your Voice Of Experience Paul Tully (elected)10,89621.87
Your Voice Of Experience Nicole Jonic (elected)8,02116.10
Independent Steven Purcell4,9169.87
Independent Sarah Knopke4,7169.47
Independent Luise Manning4,6429.32
Liberal Democrats Anthony Bull3,8307.69
Independent James Pinnell3,2166.46
Independent Paul Modra2,6665.35
Independent Andrea Dunn2,4144.85
Independent Sirle Adamson2,2844.59
Independent Brad Hunt2,2134.44
Turnout 27,64778.90
Your Voice Of Experience win(new ward)
Your Voice Of Experience win(new ward)

Division 3

2020 Queensland local elections: Division 3 [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Marnie Doyle (elected)10,39821.66
Independent Andrew Fechner (elected)5,74311.96
Independent Jim Dodrill5,04110.50
Team WORK Alyson Lewis4,92410.26
Independent Labor Toni Gibbs4,87710.16
Independent David Box4,4669.30
Liberal Democrats Jacinta Bull3,6037.50
Team WORK Bill Heck2,5595.33
Independent Rochelle Caloon1,9424.04
Independent Darren Close1,9053.97
Independent Labor Drew Pickwick1,7623.67
Independent Kevin Le Grice7921.65
Turnout 27,08075.81
Independent win(new ward)
Independent win(new ward)

Division 4

2020 Queensland local elections: Division 4 [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Labor Kate Kunzelmann (elected)9,35421.01
Independent Russell Milligan (elected)8,05718.10
Independent Labor Susan Dunne7,79117.50
Independent Gary Duffy7,02215.77
Independent Brian Scott6,69515.04
Independent Shane Blake5,60112.58
Turnout 25,14378.89
Independent Labor win(new ward)
Independent win(new ward)

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  14. ↑ "Candidates hold tight to top spots". The Courier Mail.
  15. ↑ "Veteran ex-councillor back with a new team". The Courier Mail. 3 March 2020.
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  18. ↑ "Ipswich City Division 2 Councillor". Electoral Commission of Queensland.
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