2016 Brisbane City Council election
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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.
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 reduced for Quirk from the 69.5% result at 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
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 |
Ward elections
Ward[2] | Party | Councillor | Margin (%) | |
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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
![]() | This section possibly contains original research. (March 2020) |
party | % of votes | % of seats | difference | difference
squared |
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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
- ^ "Lord Mayor Election - ABC News". ABC News. ABC Corporation. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
- ^ "Wards". ABC News. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
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