# 2012 Brisbane City Council election

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

2012 Queensland mayoral elections: Brisbane :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal National | Graham Quirk | 333,637 | 61.9 | +1.9 |
| | Labor | Ray Smith | 135,534 | 25.2 | −3.9 |
| | Greens | Andrew Bartlett | 57,641 | 10.7 | +2.3 |
| | Sex Party | Rory Killen | 7,125 | 1.3 | +1.3 |
| | Independent | Chris Carson | 4,733 | 0.9 | +0.9 |
| Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 538,670 | | |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 11,778 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 550,448 | | |
| Two-party-preferred result ||||||
| | Liberal National | Graham Quirk | 340,464 | 68.5 | |
| | Labor | Ray Smith | 156,357 | 31.5 | |
| | Liberal National hold | Liberal National hold | Swing | +2.4 | |
Mayor popular vote
LNP
61.9%
Labor
25.2%
Greens
10.7%
Other
2.2% :
Ward popular vote
LNP
57.1%
Labor
32.0%
Greens
8.5%
Other
2.4% :
Wards
LNP
69.23%
Labor
19.23%
Greens
0.0%
Other
3.84% :

### 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 | 2008 election | 2008 election | 2008 election | Swing | 2012 election | 2012 election | 2012 election | 2012 election |
| Ward | Party | Party | Councillor | Margin | Swing | Margin | Councillor | Party | 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 Quirk$^1$ | 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 Johnston$^2$ | 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 Prentice$^3$ | 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.