Global Information2024 Brisbane City Council election information
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| Registered | 845,501 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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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.[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 an estimated two-candidate-preferred result (against Tracey Price) of 56.2% to 43.8%, which constituted a 0.1% swing to the Labor candidate.[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]
- ^ "Review of Ward Boundaries – 2019 Final Determination Brisbane City Council" (PDF). ecq.qld.gov.au. Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ). 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 March 2024.
- ^ "Facts and figures: Australia". lgiu.org. Local Government Information Unit (LGIU).
- ^ "Brisbane – Council of Capital City Lord Mayors". lordmayors.org.
Brisbane City Council manages Australia's biggest local government budget at $3.1billion for 2018/2019.
- ^ "Will Brisbane City Council be next to be swept away in an electoral Greenslide?". ABC News. 2 June 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
- ^ "Brisbane City Council Election 2024 Results". ABC News. 22 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ Queensland, Electoral Commission of (1 July 2019). "Electoral Commission of Queensland". results.elections.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Lord Mayor - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 22 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "Paddington (Key seat) - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 22 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "Enoggera (Key seat) - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "Morningside - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 22 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "The Gap (Key seat) - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "Calamvale - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 22 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "Wynnum Manly - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 20 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "Party Totals". abc.net.au. 22 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.