2016 Brisbane City Council election

The 2016 Brisbane City Council election was held on 19 March 2016 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.

2016 Brisbane City Council election
19 March 2016 (2016-03-19)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Graham Quirk Rod Harding Ben Pennings
Party Liberal National Labor Greens
Popular vote 325,714 195,055 63,483
Percentage 53.4% 32.0% 10.4%
Swing 8.6pp 6.8pp 0.3pp
TPP 59.3% 40.7%
TPP swing 9.2pp 9.2pp
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
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
Liberal National Graham Quirk 49.88 19 +1
Labor Rod Harding 33.22 5 −2
Greens Ben Pennings 14.49 1 +1
Independents — 2.42 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by ward

The election resulted in the re-election of the Liberal National Party to a majority in the chamber, with incumbent LNP Lord Mayor Graham Quirk also being returned. The Liberal Nationals increased their representation by one ward to a total of 19 of 26. The Lord Mayoral result of 59.3% of the two-party-preferred vote for Quirk was a reduction from the 69.5% result at the previous election.

The main opposition party, the Labor Party was reduced to 5 wards, its lowest number in over a decade.

The Queensland Greens won their first ward in this election, with Jonathan Sri being elected in The Gabba Ward.[1]

Results

Mayor
This section is an excerpt from 2016 Queensland mayoral elections § Brisbane.[edit]
2016 Queensland mayoral elections: Brisbane[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal National Graham Quirk 325,714 53.4 -8.6
Labor Rod Harding 195,055 32.0 +6.8
Greens Ben Pennings 63,483 10.4 -0.3
Consumer Rights Jeffrey Hodges 12,960 2.1 +2.1
People Decide Karel Boele 5,195 0.9 +0.9
Independent Jim Eldridge 4,764 0.8 +0.8
Independent Jarrod Wirth 3,063 0.5 +0.5
Total formal votes 610,234
Informal votes 15,287
Turnout 625,521
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal National Graham Quirk 336,450 59.3 -9.2
Labor Rod Harding 230,841 40.7 +9.2
Liberal National hold Swing
Lord Mayoral popular vote
LNP
 
 53.4%
Labor
 
 32.0%
Greens
 
 10.4%
Other
 
 4.2%

Councillors
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2016 Queensland local elections § Brisbane.[edit]
2016 Queensland local elections: Brisbane[3]
Party Votes  % Swing Seats Change
  Liberal National 303,055 49.88 −7.2 19 1
  Labor 201,835 33.22 +1.2 5 2
  Greens 88,008 14.49 +6.0 1 1
  Independent 13,522 2.22 −0.20 1
  People Decide 1,155 0.19 +0.19 0
 Formal votes 607,575
Ward popular vote
LNP
 
 49.88%
Labor
 
 33.22%
Greens
 
 14.49%
IND
 
 2.42%
Council Wards
LNP
 
 73.07%
Labor
 
 19.23%
Greens
 
 3.84%
Other
 
 3.84%

Ward summary
Ward[4] Party Councillor Margin (%)
Bracken Ridge LNP Amanda Cooper 10.6
Calamvale LNP Angela Owen-Taylor 14.7
Central LNP Vicki Howard 8.2
Chandler LNP Adrian Schrinner 24.6
Coorparoo LNP Ian McKenzie 3.0
Deagon Labor Jared Cassidy 3.7
Doboy LNP Ryan Murphy 4.3
Enoggera LNP Andrew Wines 4.8
Forest Lake Labor Charles Strunk 5.3
Hamilton LNP David McLachlan 17.6
Holland Park LNP Krista Adams 4.8
Jamboree LNP Matthew Bourke 19.1
MacGregor LNP Steven Huang 13.7
Marchant LNP Fiona King 8.3
McDowall LNP Norm Wyndham 15.2
Moorooka Labor Steve Griffiths 13.7
Morningside Labor Shayne Sutton 6.6
Northgate LNP Adam Allan 1.7
Paddington LNP Peter Matic 5.8
Pullenvale LNP Kate Richards 18.1
Runcorn LNP Kim Marx 8.0
Tennyson Independent Nicole Johnston 26.3
The Gabba Greens Jonathan Sri 5.0
The Gap LNP Steven Toomey 5.7
Walter Taylor LNP Julian Simmonds 16.5
Wynnum Manly Labor Peter Cumming 11.6

References
  1. "Queensland elects its first Greens councillor, Jonathan Sri". Guardian Australia. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  2. "Lord Mayor Election - ABC News". ABC News. ABC. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  3. "Party Totals". ABC News.
  4. "Wards". ABC News. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
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