2024 Ipswich City Council election

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2024 Ipswich City Council election
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Mayor
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
IND
IND
TSI
Candidate Teresa Harding David MartinSheila Ireland
Party Ind. LNP Independent Team Sheila
Popular vote40,02623,03714,411
Percentage41.11%23.66%14.80%
SwingIncrease2.svg 41.11Increase2.svg 23.66Increase2.svg 8.07
TCP 57.73%42.27%
TCP swingDecrease2.svg 5.25Increase2.svg 5.25
Mayor before election

Teresa Harding
Independent LNP

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/A37.074+2
Independent N/A19.3010
Your Voice Of Experience Paul Tully12.1320
Better Brighter Ipswich Marnie Doyle
Andrew Fechner		10.501−1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2024 Ipswich City Council election was held on 16 March 2024 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 re-elected mayor with 57.73% of the vote after preferences, a swing of 5.25% against her. [2]

Background

At the 2020 election, Teresa Harding was elected mayor, defeating six other candidates. She was the first non-Labor Party aligned Ipswich mayor in 50 years. [3]

Four independents, two Independent Labor candidates and two candidates on the "Your Voice Of Experience" ticket were also elected as councillors. [4]

Division 3 councillor Marnie Doyle joined the Labor Party in March 2023. [5]

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. [6]

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. [6] 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. [7] [8]

Optional preferential voting is used for the mayoral election. [6]

Candidates

In April 2023, former councillor David Martin stated he would again run for mayor after his unsuccessful campaign in 2020. [9]

Division 1 councillor Sheila Ireland announced in December 2023 that she would contest the mayoralty and form Team Sheila Ireland. [10]

Marnie Doyle and Andrew Fechner, the two Division 3 councillors, formed the "Better Brighter Ipswich" ticket in early 2024. [11] Former mayor Andrew Antoniolli, who won the 2017 by-election before the council was dismissed in 2018, also contested Division 3 as an independent, having previously been a Labor member. [12]

On 26 January 2024, Ipswich West MP Jim Madden resigned from the Queensland state parliament to contest Division 4. This triggered a by-election in his seat, held on the same day as the local elections. [13]

Results

Mayor

This section is an excerpt from 2024 Queensland mayoral elections § Ipswich.[ edit ]
2024 Queensland mayoral elections: Ipswich
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent LNP Teresa Harding 54,72145.62+4.51
Independent David Martin38,02931.70+8.04
Team Sheila Ireland Sheila Ireland12,85710.72+10.72
Independent Peter Robinson8,3386.95+6.95
Independent Ken Salter3,4282.86+2.86
Independent Karakan Kochardy2,5762.15+0.64
Turnout 126,81281.42
Two-candidate-preferred result
Independent LNP Teresa Harding 58,41357.73−5.25
Independent David Martin42,77142.27+5.25
Independent LNP hold Swing

Councillors

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Queensland local elections § Ipswich.[ edit ]
2024 Queensland local elections: Ipswich
PartyVotes %SwingSeatsChange
  Independent Labor 83,35937.07−3.344Increase2.svg 2
  Independent 43,40619.30+2.811Steady2.svg
  Your Voice of Experience 27,28812.13−8.372Steady2.svg
  Better Brighter Ipswich 23,61310.50+10.501Decrease2.svg 1
  Working For Oor Community 21,6219.61+9.610Steady2.svg
  Greens 15,3556.83+6.830Steady2.svg
  Team Sheila Ireland 10,2564.56+4.560Decrease2.svg 1
 Formal votes224,898100.0
 Formal ballots112,44989.32+0.58
 Informal ballots13,45010.68−0.58
 Total125,899100.08
 Registered voters / turnout155,75380.83+2.87

Division 1

2024 Queensland local elections: Division 1 [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Labor Jacob Madsen (elected)16,52030.17+11.35
Independent Labor Pye Augustine (elected)14,30626.13+12.94
Independent Simon Ingram13,67424.97+10.90
Team Sheila Ireland Josh Addison10,25618.73−0.91
Turnout 31,17180.43+2.00
Independent Labor hold Swing +11.35
Independent Labor gain from Team Sheila Ireland Swing N/A

Division 2

2024 Queensland local elections: Division 2 [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Your Voice Of Experience Paul Tully (elected)13,95322.68+0.81
Your Voice Of Experience Nicole Jonic (elected)13,33521.68+5.58
Working For Community Helen Youngberry10,98017.85+17.85
Working For Community Steven Purcell10,64117.30+7.43
Independent Labor Neetu Singh Suhag6,47610.53+10.53
Independent Labor Vincent Do6,1339.97+9.97
Turnout 33,85081.81+2.91
Your Voice Of Experience hold Swing +0.81
Your Voice Of Experience hold Swing +5.58

Division 3

2024 Queensland local elections: Division 3 [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Better Brighter Ipswich Marnie Doyle (elected)12,94422.69+1.03
Independent Andrew Antoniolli (elected)11,38719.96+19.96
Better Brighter Ipswich Andrew Fechner10,66918.70+6.74
Greens Danielle Mutton7,80513.68+13.68
Greens Tracey Nayler7,55013.23+13.23
Independent David Box6,69511.74+2.44
Turnout 31,85079.30+3.49
Better Brighter Ipswich hold Swing +1.03
Independent gain from Better Brighter Ipswich Swing N/A

Division 4

2024 Queensland local elections: Division 4 [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Labor Jim Madden (elected)15,95030.93+30.93
Independent Labor David Cullen (elected)13,37825.94+25.94
Independent Russell Milligan11,65022.59+4.49
Independent Labor Sue Dunne10,59620.55+3.05
Turnout 29,02881.87+2.98
Independent Labor hold Swing N/A
Independent Labor gain from Independent Swing N/A

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  2. ↑ "New Council reflects modern community". Local Ipswich News. 8 April 2024.
  3. ↑ "First non-Labor-aligned mayor in 50 years likely in Ipswich". Brisbane Times. 29 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "Veteran ex-councillor back with a new team". The Courier Mail. 3 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "MARNIE LOUISE DOYLE". Electoral Commission of Queensland. 16 March 2024.
  6. 1 2 3 "How Ipswich will be divided after next council election". Brisbane Times. 11 July 2019.
  7. ↑ "First-past-the-post voting". Electoral Commission of Queensland. 9 December 2019.
  8. ↑ "Qld Local Government". ABC News.
  9. ↑ "Martin bids to become mayor". Local Ipswich News. 18 April 2023.
  10. ↑ "Sheila runs for mayor". The Ipswich Tribune. 20 December 2023.
  11. ↑ "Ipswich City Council election mayoral, division candidates, policies". The Courier Mail. 15 March 2024.
  12. ↑ "Former mayor eyes council return". Local Ipswich News. 1 February 2024.
  13. ↑ Johnson, Hayden (27 January 2024). "Labor MP Jim Madden resigns to run for Ipswich City Council" . The Courier-Mail . Brisbane: News Corp Australia . Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  14. ↑ "Ipswich City Division 1 Councillor". Electoral Commission of Queensland.
  15. ↑ "Ipswich City Division 2 Councillor". Electoral Commission of Queensland.
  16. ↑ "Ipswich City Division 3 Councillor". Electoral Commission of Queensland.
  17. ↑ "Ipswich City Division 4 Councillor". Electoral Commission of Queensland.
  18. ↑ "Kunzelmann quits". Local Ipswich News. 7 December 2023.
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