2016 Brisbane City Council election

2016 Brisbane City Council elections
26 wards of Brisbane City Council
Lord Mayor of Brisbane before election; Graham Quirk; Liberal National	Subsequent Lord Mayor ; Graham Quirk; Liberal National

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 slightly reduced for Quirk from the result of 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[]

Brisbane City Council mayoral election, 2016^[1]
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

Lord Mayoral popular vote

LNP			53.4%
Labor			32.0%
Greens			10.4%
Other			4.2%

Ward popular vote

LNP			49.88%
Labor			33.22%
Greens			14.49%
IND			2.42%

Council Wards

LNP			73.07%
Labor			19.23%
Greens			3.84%
Other			3.84%

Ward elections[]

Ward^[2]		Councillor	Margin (%)
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[]

party	% of votes	% of seats	difference	difference squared
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.

[ABC-1] "Lord Mayor Election - ABC News". ABC News. ABC Corporation. Retrieved 4 March 2017.

[2] "Wards". ABC News. Retrieved 4 March 2017.

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