2024 Brisbane City Council election

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Registered845,501
Turnout85.31%
2024 Brisbane City Council election

 2020
16 March 2024
2028 

All 27 seats on Brisbane City Council
14 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered845,501
Lord Mayor
Turnout85.31%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Candidate Adrian Schrinner Tracey Price Jonathan Sriranganathan
Party Liberal National Labor Greens
Primary vote 343,330 186,250 137,454
Percentage 48.59% 26.36% 19.45%
Swing Increase 0.85 Decrease 4.58 Increase 4.05
TPP 56.35% 43.65%
TPP swing Increase 0.03 Decrease 0.03

Results by ward

Lord Mayor before election

Adrian Schrinner
Liberal National

Elected Lord Mayor

Adrian Schrinner
Liberal National

Councillors
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Liberal National Adrian Schrinner 46.89 18 −1
Labor Tracey Price 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]

Mayoral candidates

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

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

Results

Lord Mayor

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

2024 Queensland local elections: Brisbane
Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Liberal National 329,337 46.87 +0.99 18 Decrease 1
  Labor 188,967 26.91 −5.99 5 Steady
  Greens 162,608 23.15 +5.35 2 Increase 1
  Independent 21,390 3.05 −0.15 1 Steady
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

Ward elections

Candidates

Sitting councillors are shown in bold text.

Ward Held by Labor candidate LNP candidate Greens candidate Other candidates
Lord MayorLNPTracey PriceAdrian SchrinnerJonathan SriranganathanClive Brazier (LCQ)
Gilbert Holmes (Ind)
Bruce Tanti (Ind)
Bracken RidgeLNPThomas StephenSandy LandersJohn Harbison
CalamvaleLNPEmily KimAngela OwenAndrea Wildin
CentralLNPAsh MurrayVicki HowardWendy Aghdam
ChandlerLNPTabatha YoungRyan MurphyAlex David
CoorparooLNPAlicia WeidermanFiona CunninghamKath Angus
DeagonLaborJared CassidyBrock Alexander (disendorsed) Edward Naus
DoboyLNPAlex CossuLisa AtwoodJames Smart
EnoggeraLNPTaylar WojtasikAndrew WinesQuintessa Denniz
Forest LakeLaborCharles StrunkKylie GatesVi Phuong Nguyen
HamiltonLNPLeah MalzardJulia DixonEdward Cordery
Holland ParkLNPShane WarrenKrista AdamsDavid Ford
JamboreeLNPLeili GolafshaniSarah HuttonChris Richardson
MacGregorLNPAshwina GotameSteven HuangBrent Tideswell
MarchantLNPDarren MitchellDanita ParryMekayla Anog
McDowallLNPMark WolhuterTracy DavisJoshua SandersonDavid Dallaston (Ind)
MoorookaLaborSteve GriffithsPeter ZhuangMelissa McArdle
MorningsideLaborLucy CollierAllie GriffinLinda Barry
NorthgateLNPVicki RyanAdam AllanTiana Peneha
PaddingtonLNPSún EtheridgeClare JenkinsonSeal Chong Wah
PullenvaleLNPRoberta AlbrechtGreg AdermannCharles DruckmannKate Richards (Ind)
RuncornLNPJohn PrescottKim MarxEmma Eastaughffe
TennysonIndependentKane HartHenry SwindonRiver KearnsNicole Johnston (Ind)
The GabbaGreensRebecca McIntoshLaura WongTrina Massey
The GapLNPBen LongSteven ToomeyAnn Aitken
Walter TaylorLNPRebecca HackPenny WolffMichaela Sargent
Wynnum ManlyLaborSara WhitmeeAlexandra GivneyBel EllisCraig 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% N/a N/a 2.8%[h] 57.7% 42.3%
28 March 2020 Election 47.7% 30.9% 15.4% N/a 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% N/a N/a N/a
28 March 2020 Election 45.9% 32.9% 17.8% 0.1% 0.1% 3.2%

See also

Notes

References

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