2008 Brisbane City Council election

2008 Brisbane City Council election
26 wards of Brisbane City Council
Lord Mayor of Brisbane before election; Campbell Newman; Liberal	Subsequent Lord Mayor ; Campbell Newman; Liberal

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.

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

2008 Queensland mayoral elections: Brisbane^[1]
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

Ward^[2]		Councillor
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

^ "Mayoral Election - ABC News". ABC News. ABC Corporation. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
^ "Electorates - 2008 Brisbane City Council Elections". ABC News. Retrieved 4 March 2017.