Brisbane City – final boundaries

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The final ward boundaries for Brisbane City Council were released last Friday. These boundaries will apply for next March’s council election.

The changes from the draft boundaries were relatively mild, although it was enough to push Doboy from being very marginal for the LNP to becoming a notional Labor ward.

10% of the city had been transferred into a new ward on the draft boundaries: this drops to 8% on the final boundaries, with a number of 2016 boundary lines restored.

Amongst the marginal wards, the LNP did best in Coorparoo, where their margin is now 3.8% (compared to 3% in 2016, and 2.4% on the draft boundaries). The draft boundaries had pushed this ward to the south-west as far as Ipswich Road, but this area has now been returned to Moorooka. Instead Coorparoo has maintained Camp Hill in its north-eastern corner.

The LNP margin in Doboy was reduced from 4.3% to 0.04% on the draft boundaries. Further changes have flipped the ward to a notional Labor margin of 0.3%. This increases the number of notional Labor wards from five to six.

It should, however, be noted that Labor was on track to flip at least two more wards if the voting system was changed to compulsory preferential voting. This change has now been dropped by the Palaszczuk government.

This table shows how these boundaries change the margins in the Brisbane City Council wards.

Ward Party Old margin New margin Change
Bracken Ridge LNP 10.6% 10.6% 0.0%
Calamvale LNP 14.7% 14.2% -0.6%
Central LNP 8.2% 8.1% -0.1%
Chandler LNP 24.6% 22.3% -2.3%
Coorparoo LNP 3.0% 3.8% 0.9%
Deagon ALP 3.7% 2.9% -0.9%
Doboy ALP -4.3% 0.3% 4.6%
Enoggera LNP 4.8% 5.6% 0.9%
Forest Lake ALP 5.3% 5.4% 0.1%
Hamilton LNP 17.6% 19.7% 2.1%
Holland Park LNP 4.8% 4.1% -0.7%
Jamboree LNP 19.1% 17.4% -1.7%
Macgregor LNP 13.7% 14.9% 1.2%
Marchant LNP 8.3% 7.6% -0.7%
McDowall LNP 15.2% 15.2% 0.0%
Moorooka ALP 13.7% 14.8% 1.1%
Morningside ALP 6.6% 5.7% -0.9%
Northgate LNP 1.7% 1.7% 0.0%
Paddington LNP vs GRN 5.8% 5.7% -0.1%
Pullenvale LNP vs GRN 18.1% 18.0% -0.1%
Runcorn LNP 8.0% 8.7% 0.7%
Tennyson IND vs ALP 26.3% 25.0% -1.2%
The Gabba GRN vs LNP 5.0% 6.8% 1.8%
The Gap LNP 5.7% 4.5% -1.2%
Walter Taylor LNP vs GRN 16.5% 15.9% -0.6%
Wynnum-Manly ALP 11.6% 11.6% 0.0%

This map shows the margins of the new wards, but you can also toggle the layers to overlay the 2016 and 2020 boundaries.

Finally, you can download the Queensland ward boundaries file here. It now includes the final boundaries from 13 of the 17 councils undergoing redistributions, with the latest inclusion coming from Ipswich, where the existing ten wards have been replaced by four two-member wards.

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