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.

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.

Results Mayoral election

Councillor elections The Liberal National's gained the wards of Doboy and Karawatha from the Labor Party and lost the ward of Tennyson to an independent, for a net gain of two wards and a majority of 18 wards, to their nearest competitor, Labor's at 7 wards. Ward 2008 election Swing 2012 election Party Councillor Margin Margin Councillor Party Bracken Ridge  Liberal National Amanda Cooper 13.88% 7.39 21.27% Amanda Cooper Liberal National  Central  Labor David Hinchliffe 0.28% -9.63 9.35% Vicki Howard Liberal National  Chandler  Liberal National Adrian Schrinner 21.19% 6.42 27.61% Adrian Schrinner Liberal National  Deagon  Labor Victoria Newton 7.92% -1.62 6.30% Victoria Newton Labor  Doboy  Labor John Campbell 0.97% -5.36 4.39% Ryan Murphy Liberal National  Enoggera  Liberal National Andrew Wines 0.82% 14.73 15.55% Andrew Wines Liberal National  Hamilton  Liberal National David McLachlan 20.38% 4.82 25.20% David McLachlan Liberal National  Holland Park  Liberal National Ian McKenzie 5.61% 4.36 9.97% Ian McKenzie Liberal National  Jamboree  Liberal National Matthew Bourke 1.50% 25.64 27.14% Matthew Bourke Liberal National  Karawatha  Labor Gail Macpherson 1.51% -17.71 16.20% Kim Marx Liberal National  MacGregor  Liberal National Graham Quirk1 21.13% 3.09 24.22% Steven Huang Liberal National  Marchant  Liberal National Fiona King 7.99% 8.79 16.78% Fiona King Liberal National  McDowall  Liberal National Norm Wyndham 21.60% 2.07 23.67% Norm Wyndham Liberal National  Moorooka  Labor Steve Griffiths 4.03% 7.03 11.06% Steve Griffiths Labor  Morningside  Labor Shayne Sutton 11.63% -5.05 6.58% Shayne Sutton Labor  Northgate  Labor Kim Flesser 1.55% -0.73 0.82% Kim Flesser Labor  Parkinson  Liberal National Angela Owen-Taylor 6.27% 10.59 16.86% Angela Owen-Taylor Liberal National  Pullenvale  Liberal National Margaret De Wit 30.61% 1.25 31.86% Margaret De Wit Liberal National  Richlands  Labor Milton Dick 4.02% 15.84 20.18% Milton Dick Labor  Tennyson  Liberal National Nicole Johnston 13.32% N/A 8.25% Nicole Johnston2 Independent  The Gabba  Labor Helen Abrahams 2.73% 6.13 8.86% Helen Abrahams Labor  The Gap  Liberal National Geraldine Knapp 18.68% 4.10 22.78% Geraldine Knapp Liberal National  Toowong  Liberal National Peter Matic 11.76% 0.27 12.03% Peter Matic Liberal National  Walter Taylor  Liberal National Jane Prentice3 21.02% 4.88 25.90% Julian Simmonds Liberal National  Wishart  Liberal National Krista Adams 13.31% 8.15 21.46% Krista Adams Liberal National  Wynnum Manly  Labor Peter Cumming 9.06% -7.42 1.64% Peter Cumming Labor 

Wards with names listed in bold changed hands from Labor to Liberal National in the 2012 election.

Councillors whose names are in italics did not stand in the 2012 election for the seat they won in 2008.

1 Graham Quirk was appointed Lord Mayor after the resignation of Campbell Newman in 2011. Steven Huang was appointed Councillor for MacGregor Ward in his place.

2 Nicole Johnston was elected as a member of the LNP in 2008 but resigned from the party to sit as an independent.

3 Jane Prentice resigned from Council in 2010 to contest the Federal electorate of Ryan for the LNP. Julian Simmonds of the LNP was elected Councillor at a by-election in October that year.

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