2024 Brisbane City Council election

2024 Brisbane City Council election

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Opinion polls
Registered	845,501
Turnout	85.31%
Lord Mayor
First party Second party Third party   Candidate Adrian Schrinner Tracey Price Jonathan Sriranganathan Party Liberal National Labor Greens Leader since 31 March 2019 6 August 2023 16 August 2023 Popular vote 343,330 186,250 137,454 Percentage 48.59% 26.36% 19.45% Swing 0.85 4.58 4.05 TPP 56.35% 43.65% TPP swing 0.03 0.03
Results by ward
Lord Mayor before election Adrian Schrinner Liberal National Elected Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner Liberal National
Councillors
All 26 wards on the City Council 13 wards needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Liberal National Adrian Schrinner 46.89 18 −1 Labor Jared Cassidy 26.91 5 0 Greens Jonathan Sriranganathan 23.15 2 +1 Independent N/A 3.05 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by ward

The 2024 Brisbane City Council election was held on 16 March 2024 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. Brisbane City Council elections are significant in the scope of Australian local government politics, as the council is the largest in the country by population, area and has the largest economy of any local government area (LGA). ^{[1] [2] [3]}

The Liberal National Party has held Brisbane's mayoralty since the election of Campbell Newman at the 2004 election, and a majority of wards since their landslide victory in the 2008 election. The party was led by incumbent Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner, who succeeded Graham Quirk on 8 April 2019. ^[4]

The election resulted in the re-election of the Liberal National Party under Adrian Schrinner, leading to a fifth consecutive term with a majority of wards for the party, along with a sixth consecutive mayoral term. ^[5]

In the lord mayoral election, incumbent Schrinner was opposed by Tracey Price and Jonathan Sriranganathan, for Labor and the Greens respectively, along with a Legalise Cannabis candidate and two Independents. ^{[6] [7]} Schrinner was re-elected as Lord Mayor with a two-candidate-preferred result (against Tracey Price) of 56.4% to 43.6%. ^[7]

In the ward elections, both the LNP and Labor lost ground to the Greens in many wards across the city, with the party successfully gaining the LNP ward of Paddington and gaining primary vote swings of over 10% in multiple other wards. ^{[8] [9] [10] [11]} Labor also managed to win Calamvale from the LNP, gaining a Brisbane City Council ward for the first time in the twenty-first century, ^[12] but significant swings against Labor in all Labor-held wards except Deagon (where the LNP candidate was disendorsed) resulted in the LNP gaining the formerly-safe Labor ward of Wynnum Manly. ^[13]

Overall, the election resulted in the Liberal National Party's majority reducing to 18 wards, falling for the first time since the 2004 election; Labor maintained a total of 5 wards with the exchange of Wynnum Manly for Calamvale; the Greens position increased to 2 wards with the gain of Paddington; and Nicole Johnson retained Tennyson as an Independent. ^[14]

Background

In April 2023, new legislation passed by the Parliament of Queensland would have an effect on all of Queensland's local government areas (LGAs) in future elections. The bill, Local Government Electoral and Other Legislation (Expenditure Caps) Amendment Bill 2022 , sets caps on electoral expenditure for all local governments across the state. ^[15] The main takeaways vis-à-vis the Brisbane City Council elections are: ^{[16] [17]}

• The caps are tiered to take into consideration the number of electors in local government areas
• For Mayoral candidates, caps range from $30,000 in council areas with 30,000 or fewer electors through to $1.3 million for the Brisbane City Council
• Expenditure caps for Councillor candidates range from $15,000 for council areas with 20,000 or fewer electors up to $55,000 for Brisbane City Council wards
• The scheme applies for the seven months prior to a quadrennial election, and from the day a by-election notice is published, through to polling day

Mayoral candidates

As incumbent Lord Mayor, Adrian Schrinner was the Liberal National candidate, confirming in February 2023 that he would seek re-election. ^[18]

North Brisbane lawyer and small business owner Tracey Price ^[19] was announced as the ALP candidate for Lord Mayor of Brisbane on 4 August 2023. ^{[20] [21]}

After resigning his seat in March 2023 to give way to another Greens councillor, Jonathan Sriranganathan was confirmed as the Queensland Greens' candidate for Lord Mayor in August 2023. ^[22]

Debates and forums

P	Participant
A	Absent

Lord Mayor

Date	Host	Participants
		LNP	ALP	GRN	LCP	TAN	HOL
7 March 2024	Queensland Media Club [23] [24]	P	P	P	A	A	A

Pendulums

Pre-Election Pendulum Liberal National wards (19) Marginal Paddington Clare Jenkinson [a] LNP 0.71% v GRN Enoggera Andrew Wines LNP 1.83% Northgate Adam Allan LNP 1.85% Calamvale Angela Owen LNP 2.24% Walter Taylor Penny Wolff [b] LNP 3.94% v GRN Bracken Ridge Sandy Landers LNP 4.15% Holland Park Krista Adams LNP 4.72% Doboy Lisa Atwood LNP 4.73% Marchant Danita Parry [c] LNP 4.98% Coorparoo Fiona Cunningham LNP 5.67% v GRN Fairly safe The Gap Steven Toomey LNP 7.05% Central Vicki Howard LNP 7.77% v GRN Runcorn Kim Marx LNP 8.27% Jamboree Sarah Hutton LNP 9.31% Pullenvale Greg Adermann LNP 9.93% v GRN Safe McDowall Tracy Davis LNP 13.54% MacGregor Steven Huang LNP 14.12% Very safe Chandler Ryan Murphy LNP 18.33% Hamilton Julia Dixon [d] LNP 20.46% Labor wards (5) Fairly safe Morningside Lucy Collier [e] ALP 9.66% Safe Wynnum Manly Sara Whitmee [f] ALP 11.39% Deagon Jared Cassidy ALP 11.48% Forest Lake Charles Strunk ALP 13.38% Very safe Moorooka Steve Griffiths ALP 19.55% Crossbench wards (2) Safe The Gabba Trina Massey [g] GRN 12.34% v LNP Very safe Tennyson Nicole Johnston IND 23.44% v LNP

Post-Election Pendulum Liberal National wards (18) Marginal Northgate Adam Allan LNP 0.81% Wynnum Manly Alex Givney LNP 1.13% Walter Taylor Penny Wolff LNP 1.71% v GRN Marchant Danita Parry LNP 2.20% Coorparoo Fiona Cunningham LNP 2.30% v GRN Central Vicki Howard LNP 2.98% v GRN Enoggera Andrew Wines LNP 3.24% v GRN Holland Park Krista Adams LNP 3.72% Fairly safe Runcorn Kim Marx LNP 5.82% Safe The Gap Steven Toomey LNP 10.16% v GRN Bracken Ridge Sandy Landers LNP 11.37% Doboy Lisa Atwood LNP 14.06% Pullenvale Greg Adermann LNP 14.32% v GRN Very safe MacGregor Steven Huang LNP 16.44% McDowall Tracy Davis LNP 17.44% Chandler Ryan Murphy LNP 20.11% Hamilton Julia Dixon LNP 21.13% v GRN Jamboree Sarah Hutton LNP 21.90% Labor wards (5) Marginal Calamvale Emily Kim ALP 1.71% Morningside Lucy Collier ALP 4.51% Fairly safe Forest Lake Charles Strunk ALP 5.33% Safe Moorooka Steve Griffiths ALP 12.78% v GRN Very safe Deagon Jared Cassidy ALP 22.14% Crossbench wards (3) Marginal Paddington Seal Chong Wah GRN 0.76% v LNP Safe The Gabba Trina Massey GRN 10.84% v LNP Very safe Tennyson Nicole Johnston IND 25.90% v LNP

Results

Lord Mayor

This section is an excerpt from 2024 Queensland mayoral elections § Brisbane.[ edit ]

2024 Queensland mayoral elections: Brisbane ^{[25] [26]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Adrian Schrinner	343,330	48.59	+0.85
	Labor	Tracey Price	186,250	26.36	−4.58
	Greens	Jonathan Sriranganathan	137,454	19.45	+4.05
	Legalise Cannabis	Clive Brazier	23,580	3.34	+3.34
	Independent	Bruce Tanti	10,070	1.43	+1.43
	Independent	Gilbert Holmes	5,958	0.84	+0.84
Total formal votes			706,642	97.97	+0.66
Informal votes			14,656	2.03	−0.66
Turnout			721,298	85.31
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Adrian Schrinner	362,411	56.35	+0.03
	Labor	Tracey Price	280,696	43.65	−0.03
	Liberal National hold		Swing	+0.03

Wards

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Queensland local elections § Brisbane.[ edit ]

2024 Queensland local elections: Brisbane

Party			Votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
	Liberal National		329,337	46.87	+0.99	18	1
	Labor		188,967	26.91	−5.99	5
	Greens		162,608	23.15	+5.35	2	1
	Independent		21,390	3.05	−0.15	1
Two-party-preferred vote
	Liberal National			55.4	+1.8
	Labor			44.6	−1.8

Wards changing hands

Seat	Pre-election				Swing	Post-election
	Party		Member	Margin		Margin	Member	Party
Calamvale		Liberal National	Angela Owen	2.24	3.95	1.71	Emily Kim	Labor
Paddington		Liberal National	Clare Jenkinson	0.71	1.47	0.76	Seal Chong Wah	Greens
Wynnum Manly		Labor	Sara Whitmee	11.39	12.52	1.13	Alex Givney	Liberal National

Maps

Lord mayoral election

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  Two-party-preferred margin by ward

Ward elections

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  Two-candidate-preferred margin by ward
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  Two-candidate preferred swing by ward
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  Party holding or gaining each ward

Candidates

Sitting councillors are shown in bold text.

Ward	Held by	Labor candidate	LNP candidate	Greens candidate	Other candidates
Lord Mayor	LNP	Tracey Price	Adrian Schrinner	Jonathan Sriranganathan	Clive Brazier (LCQ) Gilbert Holmes (Ind) Bruce Tanti (Ind)
Bracken Ridge	LNP	Thomas Stephen	Sandy Landers	John Harbison
Calamvale	LNP	Emily Kim	Angela Owen	Andrea Wildin
Central	LNP	Ash Murray	Vicki Howard	Wendy Aghdam
Chandler	LNP	Tabatha Young	Ryan Murphy	Alex David
Coorparoo	LNP	Alicia Weiderman	Fiona Cunningham	Kath Angus
Deagon	Labor	Jared Cassidy	Brock Alexander (disendorsed)	Edward Naus
Doboy	LNP	Alex Cossu	Lisa Atwood	James Smart
Enoggera	LNP	Taylar Wojtasik	Andrew Wines	Quintessa Denniz
Forest Lake	Labor	Charles Strunk	Kylie Gates	Vi Phuong Nguyen
Hamilton	LNP	Leah Malzard	Julia Dixon	Edward Cordery
Holland Park	LNP	Shane Warren	Krista Adams	David Ford
Jamboree	LNP	Leili Golafshani	Sarah Hutton	Chris Richardson
MacGregor	LNP	Ashwina Gotame	Steven Huang	Brent Tideswell
Marchant	LNP	Darren Mitchell	Danita Parry	Mekayla Anog
McDowall	LNP	Mark Wolhuter	Tracy Davis	Joshua Sanderson	David Dallaston (Ind)
Moorooka	Labor	Steve Griffiths	Peter Zhuang	Melissa McArdle
Morningside	Labor	Lucy Collier	Allie Griffin	Linda Barry
Northgate	LNP	Vicki Ryan	Adam Allan	Tiana Peneha
Paddington	LNP	Sún Etheridge	Clare Jenkinson	Seal Chong Wah
Pullenvale	LNP	Roberta Albrecht	Greg Adermann	Charles Druckmann	Kate Richards (Ind)
Runcorn	LNP	John Prescott	Kim Marx	Emma Eastaughffe
Tennyson	Independent	Kane Hart	Henry Swindon	River Kearns	Nicole Johnston (Ind)
The Gabba	Greens	Rebecca McIntosh	Laura Wong	Trina Massey
The Gap	LNP	Ben Long	Steven Toomey	Ann Aitken
Walter Taylor	LNP	Rebecca Hack	Penny Wolff	Michaela Sargent
Wynnum Manly	Labor	Sara Whitmee	Alexandra Givney	Bel Ellis	Craig Moore (Ind)

Opinion polling

Lord Mayoral vote

Date	Firm	Sample	Primary vote							2PP vote
			LNP	ALP	GRN	LCQ	AJP	CLM	IND	LNP	ALP
8–14 March 2024	DemosAU [27]	1,034	46.7%	25.8%	21.6%	3.1%	—	—	2.8% [h]	57.7%	42.3%
28 March 2020	Election		47.7%	30.9%	15.4%	—	3.1%	0.9%	2.0% [i]	56.3%	43.7%

Ward vote

Date	Firm	Sample	Primary vote
			LNP	ALP	GRN	AJP	CLM	IND
8–14 March 2024	DemosAU [27]	1,034	43.7%	31.3%	25.0%	—	—	—
28 March 2020	Election		45.9%	32.9%	17.8%	0.1%	0.1%	3.2%

See also

• 2024 Queensland local elections
• 2024 Queensland mayoral elections
• 2024 Gold Coast City Council election

Notes

1. Jenkinson succeeded Peter Matic as councillor for Paddington in June 2023.
2. Wolff succeeded James Mackay as councillor for Walter Taylor in October 2023.
3. Parry succeeded Fiona Hammond as councillor for Marchant in November 2023.
4. Dixon succeeded David McLachlan as councillor for Hamilton in August 2023.
5. Collier succeeded Kara Cook as councillor for Morningside in May 2023.
6. Whitmee succeeded Peter Cumming as councillor for Wynnum Manly in May 2023.
7. Massey succeeded Jonathan Sriranganathan as councillor for The Gabba in May 2023.
8. 1.4% for Bruce Tanti, 1.4% for Gilbert Holmes ^[27]
9. 0.7% for Frank Jordan, 0.6% for John Dobinson, 0.4% for Ben Gorringe, 0.3% for Jarrod Wirth

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