If your idea of a fun Saturday night is watching election returns, this weekend’s poll offers some intriguing match-ups.
If your idea of a fun Saturday night is watching election returns, get a life. But for those of us who just can’t help ourselves, this weekend’s Brisbane City Council election offers some intriguing match-ups.being peddled by the LNP this campaign, there’s every chance Schrinner could be returned with a hostile council chamber – something Campbell Newman had to deal with for the first four years of his lord mayoralty.
As luck would have it, all five have just three candidates running, from the LNP, Labor and the Greens. Also – and I realised this only after selecting the five wards – of the 15 candidates below, only one is a man.I said I wasn’t going to make predictions, but right off the bat I’m going to make an exception.They came damn close in 2020, when incumbent LNP councillor Peter Matic only held on by a razor-thin margin of 0.7 per cent.
Add to the mix the loss of Matic – never underestimate the strength of incumbency and name recognition in a campaign – and the fact a fair proportion of Paddington has a federal Greens member in Stephen Bates, then it’s more likely than not the seat will switch from blue to green. With Owen trying for a fifth term in City Hall, having previously represented the now-defunct Parkinson ward prior to a redistribution, incumbency could prove a double-edged sword.
First elected in 2008, council infrastructure chair Andrew Wines saw his primary vote fall from 49.6 to 45.1 per cent between 2016 and 2022. Losing the locally popular Sriranganathan could normally be expected to dampen Green hopes in The Gabba, but as lord mayoral candidate, he will still be able to drive votes for the party.
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