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The 2028 Queensland local elections are scheduled to be held on 25 March 2028 to elect the mayors and councils of the 77 local government areas in Queensland, Australia.
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The 2028 Queensland local elections are scheduled to be held on 25 March 2028 to elect the mayors and councils of the 77 local government areas in Queensland, Australia.
Like at state and federal elections, voting at Queensland local elections is compulsory. [4] The elections are conducted by the Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ). [5]
All 77 councils use optional preferential voting (OPV) for mayoral elections. Under this system, voters are only required to vote for one candidates, although they can choose to preference other candidates. [6]
In the 22 councils that use single-member wards (including Brisbane, Gold Coast and Townsville) OPV is also used. [7]
Only Ipswich uses multi-member wards, with four two-member wards (resulting in eight total councillors). [8]
No form of preferential voting is in place, with plurality block voting − also referred to as first-past-the-post by the ECQ − instead used. [9] 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]
54 councils are undivided, meaning they do not use any forms of wards and all councillors are elected to a single area representing the entire council. [11]
Plurality block voting is used for these councils. [9]
As of October 2024, two councillors have joined a party before the 2028 elections.
| Council | Ward | Councillor | Former party | New party | Date | ||
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| Cairns | Division 5 | Rob Pyne | Ind. Socialist Alliance | Independent Greens | 29 April 2024 | ||
| Logan | Division 8 | Jacob Heremaia | Independent | Independent LNP | 26 August 2024 [12] [13] [14] | ||
Queensland councils are largely non-partisan. Most wards are not contested by political parties and are rarely successful when they do. The sole exception to this is Brisbane, which is contested by the Liberal National Party, Labor and the Greens. These parties are all likely to recontest in 2028. [15] There are also a number of councillors and candidates who are members of political parties but ran as independents.
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The lower turnout from younger people/renters has hurt our results yet again, and this is one of the major challenges the Greens will have to grapple with next council election in 2028.
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