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

28 April 2012
26 wards of Brisbane City Council
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 Killen^1	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 Quirk^1	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^2	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^3	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.