2016 Brisbane City Council election

Elections to Brisbane City Council were held on Saturday, 19 March 2016 to elect a councillor to each of the local government area's 26 wards and the direct election of the Lord Mayor of Brisbane.

2016 Brisbane City Council elections

19 March 2016 (2016-03-19)

26 wards of Brisbane City Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Graham Quirk Rod Harding Ben Pennings
Party Liberal National Labor Greens
Leader since 2019
Last election 18 wards 7 wards 0 wards
Seats won 19 wards 5 wards 1 ward
Seat change 1 2 1

Lord Mayor of Brisbane before election

Graham Quirk
Liberal National

Subsequent Lord Mayor

Graham Quirk
Liberal National

The election resulted in the comprehensive re-election of the Liberal National Party under Graham Quirk as Lord Mayor. The Liberal National's 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 was slightly reduced for Quirk from the result of the previous election. The main opposition party, the Labor Party was reduced to just 5 wards; its worst result in over a decade. The Queensland Greens won their first ward in this election.

Results

Mayoral election

Brisbane City Council mayoral election, 2016[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal National Graham Quirk 325,714 53.4 -8.6
Labor Rod Harding 195,055 32 +6.8
Greens Ben Pennings 63,483 10.4 -0.3
Consumer Rights Jeffrey Hodges 12,960 2.1 +2.1
Independent 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
Other - - - -2.2
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%
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 elections

Ward[2] 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

Disproportionality

Despite winning 54% of the votes, the Liberal Nationals gained 74% of the seats. This renewed calls for electoral reforms for Local Governments, something the Queensland Government is planning to reform before the 2020 election.

party % of votes % of seats difference difference

squared

LNP 53.4 73.07 19.68 387.18
Labor 32.0 19.23 -12.77 163.05
Greens 10.4 3.84 -6.55 42.95
Other 4.2 3.84 -0.35 0.12
total of squares of differences 593.31
total / 2 296.66
square root of (total / 2) 17.22

References

  1. "Lord Mayor Election - ABC News". ABC News. ABC Corporation. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  2. "Wards". ABC News. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
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