# 2024 Brisbane City Council election

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 | Participants | Participants | Participants | Participants | Participants |
| Date | Host | LNP | ALP | GRN | LCP | TAN | HOL |
| 7 March 2024 | Queensland Media Club | P | P | P | A | A | A |

## Results
### Lord Mayor

2024 Queensland mayoral elections: Brisbane :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal National | Adrian Schrinner | 343,330 | 48.59 | +0.85 |
| | Labor | Tracey Price | 186,250 | 26.36 | −4.58 |
| | Greens | Jonathan Sriranganathan | 137,454 | 19.45 | +4.05 |
| | Legalise Cannabis | Clive Brazier | 23,580 | 3.34 | +3.34 |
| | Independent | Bruce Tanti | 10,070 | 1.43 | +1.43 |
| | Independent | Gilbert Holmes | 5,958 | 0.84 | +0.84 |
| Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 706,642 | 97.97 | +0.66 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 14,656 | 2.03 | −0.66 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 721,298 | 85.31 | |
| Two-party-preferred result ||||||
| | Liberal National | Adrian Schrinner | 362,411 | 56.35 | +0.03 |
| | Labor | Tracey Price | 280,696 | 43.65 | −0.03 |
| | Liberal National hold | Liberal National hold | Swing | +0.03 | |

### Wards

2024 Queensland local elections: Brisbane :
| Party | Party | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change |
| | Liberal National | Liberal National | 329,337 | 46.87 | +0.99 | 18 | 1 |
| | Labor | Labor | 188,967 | 26.91 | −5.99 | 5 | |
| | Greens | Greens | 162,608 | 23.15 | +5.35 | 2 | 1 |
| | Independent | Independent | 21,390 | 3.05 | −0.15 | 1 | |
| Two-party-preferred vote ||||||||
| | Liberal National | Liberal National | | 55.4 | +1.8 | | |
| | Labor | Labor | | 44.6 | −1.8 | | |

#### Wards changing hands

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

### Maps
#### Lord mayoral election

* Two-party-preferred margin by ward

#### Ward elections

* Two-candidate-preferred margin by ward
* Two-candidate preferred swing by ward
* Party holding or gaining each ward

## 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 | Primary vote | Primary vote | Primary vote | Primary vote | Primary vote | Primary vote | 2PP vote | 2PP vote |
| | | | LNP | ALP | GRN | LCQ | AJP | CLM | IND | LNP | ALP |
| 8–14 March 2024 | DemosAU | 1,034 | 46.7% | 25.8% | 21.6% | 3.1% | — | — | 2.8% | 57.7% | 42.3% |
| 28 March 2020 | Election | Election | 47.7% | 30.9% | 15.4% | — | 3.1% | 0.9% | 2.0% | 56.3% | 43.7% |

### Ward vote

| Date | Firm | Sample | Primary vote | Primary vote | Primary vote | Primary vote | Primary vote | Primary vote |
| | | | LNP | ALP | GRN | AJP | CLM | IND |
| 8–14 March 2024 | DemosAU | 1,034 | 43.7% | 31.3% | 25.0% | — | — | — |
| 28 March 2020 | Election | Election | 45.9% | 32.9% | 17.8% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 3.2% |