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).

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.

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.

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. Schrinner was re-elected as Lord Mayor with a two-candidate-preferred result (against Tracey Price) of 56.4% to 43.6%.

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. Labor also managed to win Calamvale from the LNP, gaining a Brisbane City Council ward for the first time in the twenty-first century, 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.

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.

Background 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. The main takeaways vis-à-vis the Brisbane City Council elections are: 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 As incumbent Lord Mayor, Adrian Schrinner was the Liberal National candidate, confirming in February 2023 that he would seek re-election.

North Brisbane lawyer and small business owner Tracey Price was announced as the ALP candidate for Lord Mayor of Brisbane on 4 August 2023.

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.

Debates and forums P Participant A Absent Lord Mayor Date Host Participants 7 March 2024 Queensland Media Club

Pendulums

Pre-Election Pendulum Liberal National wards (19)MarginalPaddingtonClare JenkinsonLNP0.71% v GRNEnoggeraAndrew WinesLNP1.83%NorthgateAdam AllanLNP1.85%CalamvaleAngela OwenLNP2.24%Walter TaylorPenny WolffLNP3.94% v GRNBracken RidgeSandy LandersLNP4.15%Holland ParkKrista AdamsLNP4.72%DoboyLisa AtwoodLNP4.73%MarchantDanita ParryLNP4.98%CoorparooFiona CunninghamLNP5.67% v GRNFairly safeThe GapSteven ToomeyLNP7.05%CentralVicki HowardLNP7.77% v GRNRuncornKim MarxLNP8.27%JamboreeSarah HuttonLNP9.31%PullenvaleGreg AdermannLNP9.93% v GRNSafeMcDowallTracy DavisLNP13.54%MacGregorSteven HuangLNP14.12%Very safeChandlerRyan MurphyLNP18.33%HamiltonJulia DixonLNP20.46%Labor wards (5)Fairly safeMorningsideLucy CollierALP9.66%SafeWynnum ManlySara WhitmeeALP11.39%DeagonJared CassidyALP11.48%Forest LakeCharles StrunkALP13.38%Very safeMoorookaSteve GriffithsALP19.55%Crossbench wards (2)SafeThe GabbaTrina MasseyGRN12.34% v LNPVery safeTennysonNicole JohnstonIND23.44% v LNP

Post-Election Pendulum Liberal National wards (18)MarginalNorthgateAdam AllanLNP0.81%Wynnum ManlyAlex GivneyLNP1.13%Walter TaylorPenny WolffLNP1.71% v GRNMarchantDanita ParryLNP2.20%CoorparooFiona CunninghamLNP2.30% v GRNCentralVicki HowardLNP2.98% v GRNEnoggeraAndrew WinesLNP3.24% v GRNHolland ParkKrista AdamsLNP3.72%Fairly safeRuncornKim MarxLNP5.82%SafeThe GapSteven ToomeyLNP10.16% v GRNBracken RidgeSandy LandersLNP11.37%DoboyLisa AtwoodLNP14.06%PullenvaleGreg AdermannLNP14.32% v GRNVery safeMacGregorSteven HuangLNP16.44%McDowallTracy DavisLNP17.44%ChandlerRyan MurphyLNP20.11%HamiltonJulia DixonLNP21.13% v GRNJamboreeSarah HuttonLNP21.90%Labor wards (5)MarginalCalamvaleEmily KimALP1.71%MorningsideLucy CollierALP4.51%Fairly safeForest LakeCharles StrunkALP5.33%SafeMoorookaSteve GriffithsALP12.78% v GRNVery safeDeagonJared CassidyALP22.14%Crossbench wards (3)MarginalPaddingtonSeal Chong WahGRN0.76% v LNPSafeThe GabbaTrina MasseyGRN10.84% v LNPVery safeTennysonNicole JohnstonIND25.90% v LNP

Results Lord Mayor

Wards

Wards changing hands Seat Pre-election Swing Post-election Party Member Margin Margin Member Party Calamvale Angela Owen 2.24 3.95 1.71 Emily Kim Paddington Clare Jenkinson 0.71 1.47 0.76 Seal Chong Wah Wynnum Manly Sara Whitmee 11.39 12.52 1.13 Alex Givney

Maps Lord mayoral election

Ward elections

Candidates Sitting councillors are shown in bold text.

Ward Held by Labor candidate LNP candidate Greens candidate Other candidates 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 Lord Mayoral vote

Date Firm Sample Primary vote 2PP vote LNP ALP GRN LCQ AJP CLM IND LNP ALP8–14 March 2024DemosAU1,034 46.7% 25.8% 21.6% 3.1% 2.8% 57.7% 42.3%28 March 2020Election47.7%30.9%15.4% 3.1%0.9%2.0%56.3%43.7%

Ward vote

Date Firm Sample Primary vote LNP ALP GRN AJP CLM IND8–14 March 2024DemosAU1,034 43.7% 31.3% 25.0% 28 March 2020Election45.9%32.9%17.8%0.1%0.1%3.2%

See also 2024 Queensland local elections 2024 Queensland mayoral elections 2024 Gold Coast City Council election

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