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2012 Brisbane City Council election
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Leader Graham Quirk Ray Smith Andrew Bartlett
Party Liberal National Labor Greens
Popular vote 333,637 135,534 57,641
Percentage 61.9% 25.2% 10.7%
Swing Increase 1.9pp Decrease 3.9pp Increase 2.3pp
TPP 68.5% 31.5%
TPP swing Increase 2.4pp Decrease 2.4pp
Lord Mayor of Brisbane before election

Graham Quirk
Liberal National

Subsequent Lord Mayor

Graham Quirk
Liberal National

All 26 wards on the City Council
13 wards needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Liberal National Graham Quirk 57.1 18 +2
Labor Ray Smith 32.0 7 −3
Independents — 2.42 1 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by ward

The 2012 Brisbane City Council election was held on 28 April 2012 to elect a lord mayor and 26 councillors to the City of Brisbane. The election was held as part of the statewide local government elections in Queensland, Australia.

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

This section is an excerpt from 2012 Queensland mayoral elections § Brisbane.
2012 Queensland mayoral elections: Brisbane
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
Sex Party Rory Killen 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
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 Quirk 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 Johnston 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 Prentice 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.

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.

Nicole Johnston was elected as a member of the LNP in 2008 but resigned from the party to sit as an Independent.

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 8 April 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  2. "2012 Brisbane City - Mayoral Election - Election Summary". Electoral Commission Queensland. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  3. "BCC2012_Results". Electoral Commission Queensland. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
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