2024 Brisbane City Council election

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2024 Brisbane City Council election
Flag of Brisbane.svg
  2020 16 March 2024 2028  
Opinion polls
Registered845,501
Turnout85.31%
Lord Mayor
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
LordMayorAdrianSchrinner (cropped).png
Labor Placeholder.png
Jonno Sriranganathan 1 (cropped).png
Candidate Adrian Schrinner Tracey Price Jonathan Sriranganathan
Party Liberal National Labor Greens
Leader since31 March 20196 August 202316 August 2023
Popular vote343,330186,250137,454
Percentage48.59%26.36%19.45%
SwingIncrease2.svg 0.85Decrease2.svg 4.58Increase2.svg 4.05
TPP 56.35%43.65%
TPP swingIncrease2.svg 0.03Decrease2.svg 0.03

2024 Brisbane City Council election - mayoral TPP by ward.svg
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
PartyLeaderVote %Seats+/–
Liberal National Adrian Schrinner 46.8918−1
Labor Jared Cassidy 26.9150
Greens Jonathan Sriranganathan 23.152+1
Independent N/A3.0510
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
2024 Brisbane City Council election - TCP by ward.svg
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]

Contents

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]

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

PParticipant
AAbsent

Lord Mayor

DateHostParticipants
LNP ALP GRN LCP TANHOL
7 March 2024Queensland Media Club [23] [24] PPPAAA

Pendulums

Results

Lord Mayor

2024 Queensland mayoral elections: Brisbane [25] [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal National Adrian Schrinner 343,33048.59+0.85
Labor Tracey Price 186,25026.36−4.58
Greens Jonathan Sriranganathan 137,45419.45+4.05
Legalise Cannabis Clive Brazier23,5803.34+3.34
Independent Bruce Tanti10,0701.43+1.43
Independent Gilbert Holmes5,9580.84+0.84
Total formal votes706,64297.97+0.66
Informal votes14,6562.03−0.66
Turnout 721,29885.31
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal National Adrian Schrinner 362,41156.35+0.03
Labor Tracey Price 280,69643.65−0.03
Liberal National hold Swing +0.03

Wards

2024 Queensland local elections: Brisbane
PartyVotes %SwingSeatsChange
  Liberal National 329,30048.37+2.4718Decrease2.svg 1
  Labor 188,92527.75−5.155Steady2.svg
  Greens 162,59723.88+6.082Increase2.svg 1
  Independent 21,3903.14−0.061Steady2.svg
Two-party-preferred vote
  Liberal National 55.4+1.8
  Labor 44.6−1.8
Results are not final. Last updated on 20 March 2024.

Wards changing hands

SeatPre-electionSwingPost-election
PartyMemberMarginMarginMemberParty
Calamvale Liberal National Angela Owen2.243.951.71Emily Kim Labor
Paddington Liberal National Clare Jenkinson0.711.470.76Seal Chong Wah Greens
Wynnum Manly Labor Sara Whitmee11.3912.521.13Alex Givney Liberal National

Maps

Lord mayoral election

Ward elections

Candidates

Sitting councillors are shown in bold text.

WardHeld by Labor candidate LNP candidate Greens candidateOther candidates
Lord Mayor LNP Tracey Price Adrian Schrinner Jonathan Sriranganathan Clive Brazier (LCQ)
Gilbert Holmes (Ind)
Bruce Tanti (Ind)
Bracken Ridge LNP Thomas StephenSandy LandersJohn Harbison
Calamvale LNP Emily Kim Angela Owen Andrea Wildin
Central LNP Ash MurrayVicki HowardWendy Aghdam
Chandler LNP Tabatha YoungRyan MurphyAlex David
Coorparoo LNP Alicia WeidermanFiona CunninghamKath Angus
Deagon Labor Jared Cassidy Brock Alexander (disendorsed) Edward Naus
Doboy LNP Alex CossuLisa AtwoodJames Smart
Enoggera LNP Taylar WojtasikAndrew WinesQuintessa Denniz
Forest Lake Labor Charles StrunkKylie GatesVi Phuong Nguyen
Hamilton LNP Leah MalzardJulia DixonEdward Cordery
Holland Park LNP Shane WarrenKrista AdamsDavid Ford
Jamboree LNP Leili GolafshaniSarah HuttonChris Richardson
MacGregor LNP Ashwina GotameSteven HuangBrent Tideswell
Marchant LNP Darren MitchellDanita ParryMekayla Anog
McDowall LNP Mark Wolhuter Tracy Davis Joshua SandersonDavid Dallaston (Ind)
Moorooka Labor Steve GriffithsPeter ZhuangMelissa McArdle
Morningside Labor Lucy CollierAllie GriffinLinda Barry
Northgate LNP Vicki RyanAdam AllanTiana Peneha
Paddington LNP Sún EtheridgeClare JenkinsonSeal Chong Wah
Pullenvale LNP Roberta AlbrechtGreg AdermannCharles DruckmannKate Richards (Ind)
Runcorn LNP John PrescottKim MarxEmma Eastaughffe
Tennyson Independent Kane HartHenry SwindonRiver KearnsNicole Johnston (Ind)
The Gabba Greens Rebecca McIntoshLaura WongTrina Massey
The Gap LNP Ben LongSteven ToomeyAnn Aitken
Walter Taylor LNP Rebecca HackPenny WolffMichaela Sargent
Wynnum Manly Labor Sara WhitmeeAlexandra GivneyBel EllisCraig Moore (Ind)

Opinion polling

Lord Mayoral vote

2024BCCOpinionPolling.png

DateFirmSamplePrimary vote 2PP vote
LNP ALP GRN LCQ AJP CLM IND LNP ALP
8–14 March 2024DemosAU [27] 1,03446.7%25.8%21.6%3.1%2.8% [lower-alpha 8] 57.7%42.3%
28 March 2020 Election 47.7%30.9%15.4%3.1%0.9%2.0% [lower-alpha 9] 56.3%43.7%

Ward vote

2024BCCOpinionPollingWards.png

DateFirmSamplePrimary vote
LNP ALP GRN AJP CLM IND
8–14 March 2024DemosAU [27] 1,03443.7%31.3%25.0%
28 March 2020 Election 45.9%32.9%17.8%0.1%0.1%3.2%

See also

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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