2024 Brisbane City Council election

Election of Lord Mayor and Councillors in Brisbane City, Australia

2024 Brisbane City Council election

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Opinion polls
Registered| 845,501
Turnout| 85.31%

Lord Mayor

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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  |

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Results by ward

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| Lord Mayor before election

Adrian Schrinner
Liberal National

| Elected Lord Mayor

Adrian Schrinner
Liberal National

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Councillors

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All 26 wards on the City Council
13 wards needed for a majority
| Party  | Leader  | Vote %  | Seats  | +/–

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| 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

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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

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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

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A | Absent

### Lord Mayor

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Date  | Host  | Participants

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

## Pendulums

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### Pre-Election Pendulum

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| 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

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| 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

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### Lord Mayor

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

2024 Queensland mayoral elections: Brisbane[25][26] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| 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

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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

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| 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

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Seat  | Pre-election  | Swing  | Post-election

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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

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#### 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

* Two-candidate preferred swing by ward

* Party holding or gaining each ward

## Candidates

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Sitting councillors are shown in bold text.

Ward  | Held by  | Labor candidate  | LNP candidate  | Greens candidate  | Other candidates

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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

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### Lord Mayoral vote

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Date  | Firm  | Sample  | Primary vote  | 2PP vote

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| 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

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Date  | Firm  | Sample  | Primary vote

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| 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

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

## Notes

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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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6. ^ Queensland, Electoral Commission of (1 July 2019). "Electoral Commission of Queensland". results.elections.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
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17. ^ "Changes to rent increases to give Queenslanders who rent a fair go". nationaltribune.com.au. The National Tribune. 18 April 2023.
18. ^ "Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner confirms he will contest next 2024 election". The Courier-Mail. 20 February 2023.
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22. ^ Atkins, Dennis (11 July 2023). "Dennis Atkins: Is Brisbane about to become the Greenest city in Australia?". InQueensland.
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