2024 Brisbane City Council election

The next Brisbane City Council elections are set to be held on Saturday, 16 March 2024[1][5] to elect councillors representing each of the local government area's 26 wards, along with the direct election of the Lord Mayor of Brisbane. The current Lord Mayor, former Deputy Adrian Schrinner (Liberal National), has served since 8 April 2019,[6] having succeeded Graham Quirk, with the Liberal National Party having been in power for almost 20 years after defeating Labor's Tim Quinn in 2004.[7] 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 managing budget.[2][8][9]

2024 Lord Mayoral election
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Candidate Adrian Schrinner Tracey Price Jonathan Sriranganathan
Party Liberal National Labor Greens
Leader since 31 March 2019[lower-alpha 3] 6 August 2023 16 August 2023
Incumbent Lord Mayor

Adrian Schrinner
Liberal National


Council election
All 26 wards in the City of Brisbane
13 wards needed for a majority
PartyLeader Current seats
Liberal National Adrian Schrinner 19
Labor Jared Cassidy 5
Greens Jonathan Sriranganathan 1
Independent politician — 1

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.[10] The main takeaways vis-à-vis the Brisbane City Council elections are:[11][12]

  • 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

Liberal National

As incumbent Lord Mayor, Adrian Schrinner was the Liberal National candidate, confirming in February 2023 that he would seek re-election.[13]

Labor

In November 2022, speculation surrounded the Labor Party as to whom their mayoral candidate would be for Brisbane. Kate Jones, former Queensland MLA for Ashgrove and cabinet minister, was the main individual of speculation.[14] After declining to comment to ABC News in June (194 days later), another potential candidate was touted as a possibility: North Brisbane lawyer Tracey Price.[15] On 4 August 2023, 225 days out from the election, Labor confirmed Price would be their candidate for Lord Mayor.[16][17]

Greens

After resigning his seat in March 2023 to give way to another Greens councillor, Jonathan Sriranganathan was speculated to run for Lord Mayor for the Greens.[18][19] He was confirmed as the Queensland Greens' candidate for Lord Mayor in July 2023.[20]

Pendulum

Candidates

Sitting councillors are shown in bold text.

Ward Held by Labor candidate LNP candidate Greens candidate Other candidates
Lord MayorLNPTracey PriceAdrian SchrinnerJonathan Sriranganathan
Bracken RidgeLNPCath PalmerSandy Landers
CalamvaleLNPEmily KimAngela Owen
CentralLNPVicki HowardWendy Aghdam
ChandlerLNPTabatha YoungRyan Murphy
CoorparooLNPAlicia WeidermanFiona CunninghamKath Angus
DeagonLaborJared CassidyEdward Naus
DoboyLNPLisa Atwood
EnoggeraLNPTaylar WojtasikAndrew WinesQuintessa Denniz
Forest LakeLaborCharles Strunk
HamiltonLNPLeah MalzardJulia Dixon
Holland ParkLNPShane WarrenKrista AdamsDavid Ford
JamboreeLNPSarah Hutton
MacGregorLNPAshwina GotameSteven Huang
MarchantLNPDarren Mitchell
McDowallLNPTracy Davis
MoorookaLaborSteve Griffiths
MorningsideLaborLucy CollierAllie GriffinLinda Barry
NorthgateLNPVicki RyanAdam AllanTiana Peneha
PaddingtonLNPSún EtheridgeClare JenkinsonSeal Chong Wah
PullenvaleLNPGreg AdermannCharles Druckmann
RuncornLNPJohn PrescottKim Marx
TennysonIndependentKane HartRiver KearnsNicole Johnston (Ind)
The GabbaGreensBec MacTrina Massey
The GapLNPSteven Toomey
Walter TaylorLNPMichaela Sargent
Wynnum ManlyLaborSara WhitmeeAlexandra GivneyBel Ellis

Notes
  1. The original scheduled date for the election of 30 March 2024 was moved ahead to 16 March 2024 to avoid Easter holidays.[1]
  2. Expected figure.[2]
  3. Schrinner won an internal party contest to overtake the Lord Mayoralty on 31 March 2019,[3] taking the reins from Graham Quirk. He was sworn in as Lord Mayor on 8 April 2019.[4]
  4. Jenkinson succeeded Peter Matic as councillor for Paddington in June 2023.
  5. Dixon succeeded David McLachlan as councillor for Hamilton in August 2023.
  6. Collier succeeded Kara Cook as councillor for Morningside in May 2023.
  7. Whitmee succeeded Peter Cumming as councillor for Wynnum Manly in May 2023.
  8. Massey succeeded Jonathan Sriranganathan as councillor for The Gabba in May 2023.

References
  1. Kerr, Judith; McCormack, Madura (1 April 2023). "Council election moved to new date in March before Easter holidays in 2024". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  2. "Review of Ward Boundaries – 2019 Final Determination Brisbane City Council" (PDF). ecq.qld.gov.au. Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ). 2019.
  3. McKay, Jack (31 March 2019). "Adrian Schrinner announces new bridges after being voted Brisbane Mayor". The Courier-Mail.
  4. Stone, Lucy (6 April 2019). "The Brisbane of tomorrow: Adrian Schrinner prepares to be lord mayor". Brisbane Times.
  5. Miles, Stephen (21 April 2023). "Statement regarding the 2024 Local Government election". The Queensland Cabinet and Ministerial Directory. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  6. Stone, Lucy (6 April 2019). "The Brisbane of tomorrow: Adrian Schrinner prepares to be lord mayor". Brisbane Times. On Monday [8 April 2019], Cr Schrinner, 41, will be sworn in at a special council meeting as one of the youngest mayors the city has seen, ready to lay out his own long-term vision.
  7. "Will Brisbane City Council be next to be swept away in an electoral Greenslide?". ABC News. 2 June 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  8. "Facts and figures: Australia". lgiu.org. Local Government Information Unit (LGIU).
  9. "Brisbane – Council of Capital City Lord Mayors". lordmayors.org. Brisbane City Council manages Australia's biggest local government budget at $3.1billion for 2018/2019.
  10. "Changes to rent increases to give Queenslanders who rent a fair go". statements.qld.gov.au. 18 April 2023.
  11. "Local government elections". statedevelopment.qld.gov.au. Department of State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning.
  12. "Changes to rent increases to give Queenslanders who rent a fair go". nationaltribune.com.au. The National Tribune. 18 April 2023.
  13. "Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner confirms he will contest next 2024 election". The Courier-Mail. 20 February 2023.
  14. "Secret talks to lure Kate Jones to run for Brisbane lord mayor". The Courier-Mail. News Corp Australia. 27 November 2022.
  15. McKay, Jodi (9 June 2023). "Brisbane lawyer Tracey Price in the mix as Labor's Brisbane City Council lord mayoral candidate". ABC News.
  16. Arvier, Tim (4 August 2023). "Labor confirms candidate for 2024 Brisbane lord mayoral race". Brisbane Times.
  17. McKay, Jodi (5 August 2023). "Labor announces lawyer Tracey Price as Brisbane mayoral candidate". ABC News.
  18. Moore, Tony (26 March 2023). "Colourful Greens councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan set to stand down". Brisbane Times.
  19. "Former councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan considered as Greens Lord Mayor candidate". The Courier-Mail. 7 July 2023.
  20. Atkins, Dennis (11 July 2023). "Dennis Atkins: Is Brisbane about to become the Greenest city in Australia?". InQueensland.


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