2012 Brisbane City Council election

Elections to Brisbane City Council were held on Saturday, 28 April 2012 to elect a councillor to each of the local government area's 26 wards and the direct election of the Lord Mayor of Brisbane.[1]

2012 Brisbane City Council elections
April 28, 2012 (2012-04-28)
26 wards of Brisbane City Council
  First party Second party
 
Leader Graham Quirk Ray Smith
Party Liberal National Labor
Leader since 2011
Last election 16 wards 10 wards
Seats won 18 wards 7 wards
Seat change 2 3
Lord Mayor of Brisbane before election

Graham Quirk
Liberal National

 Subsequent Lord Mayor

Graham Quirk
Liberal National

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

Campbell Newman was elected Lord Mayor of Brisbane in 2008 as the Liberal Party candidate. In 2011 he resigned as Lord Mayor to be the Liberal National Party's candidate for Premier of Queensland. Graham Quirk was elected as Lord Mayor by the Councillors on 7 April 2011.[2]

Brisbane City Council mayoral election, 2012[3] [4]
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
Independent Rory Killen1 7,125 1.3 +1.3
Independent Chris Carson 4,733 0.9 +0.9
Total formal votes 538,670 - -
Informal votes 11,778 - -
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 Swing+2.4

* Incumbent

1 Rory Killen was the candidate for the Australian Sex Party, but his party affiliation was not listed on the ballot paper

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 Swing 2012 Election
Party Councillor Margin Margin Councillor 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 Quirk1 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 Johnston2 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 Prentice3 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.

References
  1. Parliament of Queensland. "City of Brisbane Act 2010 S13". Austlii. Archived from the original on 28 April 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  2. "Lord Mayor Graham Quirk". Brisbane City Council. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  3. "2012 Brisbane City - Mayoral Election - Election Summary". Electoral Commission Queensland. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  4. "BCC2012_Results". Electoral Commission Queensland. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
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