2008 Brisbane City Council election
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Elections for the Brisbane City Council in Queensland, Australia, were held on Saturday, 15 March 2008 to elect a councillor to each of the local government area's 26 wards and the direct election of the Lord Mayor of Brisbane.
The election resulted in the re-election of Campbell Newman of the Liberal Party as Lord Mayor, defeating Labor's Greg Rowell in a landslide with 66.1% of the mayoral two-party-preferred vote. The Liberals also won control of the council chambers, taking 5 wards from Labor for a total of 16 to Labor's 10.
Results
Mayoral election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Campbell Newman | 335,076 | 60.1 | +12.9 | |
Labor | Greg Rowell | 161,845 | 29.0 | -11.6 | |
Greens | Jo-Anne Bragg | 46,733 | 8.4 | -1.8 | |
Independent | Robert Campbell | 8,439 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
Independent | Louise Day | 1,801 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
Independent | Bryan Crawford | 1,331 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
Independent | David Alan Couper | 952 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
Independent | James Patrick Sinnamon | 856 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
Independent | Derek Rosborough | 773 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
Other | - | - | - | -2.2 | |
Total formal votes | 557,806 | - | - | ||
Informal votes | 9,618 | - | - | ||
Turnout | 567,424 | - | - | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Campbell Newman | 66.1 | +13.7 | ||
Labor | Greg Rowell | 33.9 | -13.7 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | +13.7 |
Councillor elections
Ward[2] | Party | Councillor | Margin (%) | |
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Bracken Ridge | Liberal | Amanda Cooper | ||
Central | Labor | David Hinchliffe | ||
Chandler | Liberal | Adrian Schrinner | ||
Deagon | Labor | Victoria Newton | ||
Doboy | Labor | John Campbell | ||
Enoggera | Liberal | Andrew Wines | ||
Hamilton | Liberal | David McLachlan | ||
Holland Park | Liberal | Ian McKenzie | ||
Jamboree | Liberal | Matthew Bourke | ||
Karawatha | Labor | Gail Macpherson | ||
MacGregor | Liberal | Graham Quirk | ||
Marchant | Liberal | Fiona King | ||
McDowall | Liberal | Norm Wyndham | ||
Moorooka | Labor | Steve Griffiths | ||
Morningside | Labor | Shayne Sutton | ||
Northgate | Labor | Kim Flesser | ||
Parkinson | Liberal | Angela Owen-Taylor | ||
Pullenvale | Liberal | Margaret De Wit | ||
Richlands | Labor | Milton Dick | ||
Tennyson | Liberal | Nicole Johnston | ||
The Gabba | Labor | Helen Abrahams | ||
The Gap | Liberal | Geraldine Knapp | ||
Toowong | Liberal | Peter Matic | ||
Walter Taylor | Liberal | Jane Prentice | ||
Wishart | Liberal | Krista Adams | ||
Wynnum Manly | Labor | Peter Cumming |
References
- ^ "Mayoral Election - ABC News". ABC News. ABC Corporation. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
- ^ "Electorates - 2008 Brisbane City Council Elections". ABC News. Retrieved 4 March 2017.