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2012 Brisbane City Council election information


2012 Brisbane City Council election
2012 Brisbane City Council election
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Leader Graham Quirk Ray Smith Andrew Bartlett
Party Liberal National Labor Greens
Popular vote 333,637 135,534 57,641
Percentage 61.9% 25.2% 10.7%
Swing Increase 1.9pp Decrease 3.9pp Increase 2.3pp
TPP 68.5% 31.5%
TPP swing Increase 2.4pp Decrease 2.4pp

Lord Mayor of Brisbane before election

Graham Quirk
Liberal National

Subsequent Lord Mayor

Graham Quirk
Liberal National


All 26 wards on the City Council
13 wards needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats +/–
Liberal National Graham Quirk 57.1 18 +2
Labor Ray Smith 32.0 7 −3
Independents 2.42 1 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by ward

The 2012 Brisbane City Council election was held on 28 April 2012 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.[1]

The election resulted in a landslide re-election of the Liberal National Party (previously represented in Queensland as the Liberal Party), increasing their representation by two wards. The incumbent Lord Mayor, Graham Quirk, was elected to his first full-term with a substantial 68.3% of the two-party-preferred vote.

  1. ^ Parliament of Queensland. "City of Brisbane Act 2010 S13". Austlii. Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2012.

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