2008 Brisbane City Council election

The 2008 Brisbane City Council election was held on 15 March 2008 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.

2008 Brisbane City Council election

15 March 2008
26 wards of Brisbane City Council
First party Second party   Leader Campbell Newman Greg Rowell Party Liberal Labor Leader since 2004 Last election 11 wards 15 wards Seats won 16 wards 10 wards Seat change 5 5 Popular vote 335,076 161,845 Percentage 60.1% 29.0% Swing 12.9pp 11.6pp 2PP 66.1% 33.9% 2PP swing 13.7pp 13.7pp
Lord Mayor of Brisbane before election Campbell Newman Liberal Subsequent Lord Mayor Campbell Newman Liberal

The election resulted in the re-election of Campbell Newman of the Liberal Party as Lord Mayor, defeating Labor's Greg Rowell in a landslide with 66.1% of the mayoral two-party-preferred vote. The Liberals also won control of the council chambers, taking 5 wards from Labor for a total of 16 to Labor's 10. This was also the final BCC election contested by the Queensland Liberals, as they merged with the Queensland Nationals to form the Liberal National Party of Queensland a few months later in July.

Results

Mayor

This section is an excerpt from 2008 Queensland mayoral elections § Brisbane.[edit]

2008 Queensland mayoral elections: Brisbane

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Campbell Newman	335,076	60.1	+12.9
	Labor	Greg Rowell	161,845	29.0	−11.6
	Greens	Jo-Anne Bragg	46,733	8.4	−1.8
	Independent	Robert Campbell	8,439	1.5	+1.5
	Independent	Louise Day	1,801	0.3	+0.3
	Independent	Bryan Crawford	1,331	0.2	+0.2
	Independent	David Alan Couper	952	0.2	+0.2
	Independent	James Patrick Sinnamon	856	0.2	+0.2
	Independent	Derek Rosborough	773	0.1	+0.1
Total formal votes			557,806
Informal votes			9,618
Turnout			567,424
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Campbell Newman		66.1	+13.7
	Labor	Greg Rowell		33.9	−13.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	+13.7

Councillors

Ward	Party		Councillor	Margin (%)
Bracken Ridge		Liberal	Amanda Cooper
Central		Labor	David Hinchliffe
Chandler		Liberal	Adrian Schrinner
Deagon		Labor	Victoria Newton
Doboy		Labor	John Campbell
Enoggera		Liberal	Andrew Wines
Hamilton		Liberal	David McLachlan
Holland Park		Liberal	Ian McKenzie
Jamboree		Liberal	Matthew Bourke
Karawatha		Labor	Gail Macpherson
MacGregor		Liberal	Graham Quirk
Marchant		Liberal	Fiona King
McDowall		Liberal	Norm Wyndham
Moorooka		Labor	Steve Griffiths
Morningside		Labor	Shayne Sutton
Northgate		Labor	Kim Flesser
Parkinson		Liberal	Angela Owen-Taylor
Pullenvale		Liberal	Margaret De Wit
Richlands		Labor	Milton Dick
Tennyson		Liberal	Nicole Johnston
The Gabba		Labor	Helen Abrahams
The Gap		Liberal	Geraldine Knapp
Toowong		Liberal	Peter Matic
Walter Taylor		Liberal	Jane Prentice
Wishart		Liberal	Krista Adams
Wynnum Manly		Labor	Peter Cumming