Doboy – Brisbane 2020

Council margin – ALP 0.3%
Mayoral margin – LNP 4.8%

Incumbent councillor
Lisa Atwood (LNP), since 2019. Lisa Atwood replaced Ryan Murphy as councillor for Doboy in June 2019.

Geography
Eastern Brisbane. Doboy covers suburbs to the east of the Brisbane CBD, including Murarrie, Tingalpa and Carina.

Redistribution
Doboy shifted to the west, taking in territory from Morningside and losing Wakerley to Chandler. These changes flipped the ward from a marginal LNP ward with a 4.3% margin to a very marginal ALP ward with a 0.3% margin.

History

Labor’s John Campbell held Doboy for approximately thirty years from the early 1980s until 2012. Campbell served as opposition leader from 1990 to 1991 and as deputy mayor from 1991 to 1997.

Doboy had become quite marginal in the 2000s, with Campbell’s margin cut to 5% in 2004 and 1% in 2008.

In 2012, a 5.5% swing to the Liberal National Party saw Campbell lose to LNP candidate Ryan Murphy.

Murphy was re-elected despite a tiny swing to Labor in 2016. In 2019, Murphy switched to the neighbouring safe LNP ward of Chandler to replace new lord mayor Adrian Schrinner, and his seat in Doboy was filled by the LNP’s Lisa Atwood.

Candidates

Assessment
Doboy is the most marginal ward in Brisbane. Murphy’s departure and the redistribution should improve Labor’s chances of winning here.

2016 council result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing Redist
Ryan Murphy Liberal National 11,180 49.1 -2.8 44.8
Kerryn Loose Jones Labor 8,858 38.9 -9.3 42.8
David Nelson Greens 1,788 7.9 +7.9 8.4
Luke Quinn Independent 950 4.2 +4.2 4.0
Informal 692 3.0

2016 council two-party-preferred result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing Redist
Ryan Murphy Liberal National 11,559 54.3 -0.3 49.7
Kerryn Loose Jones Labor 9,737 45.7 +0.3 50.3
Exhausted 1,480 6.5

2016 mayoral result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing Redist
Graham Quirk Liberal National 12,057 52.6 -3.0 49.5
Rod Harding Labor 8,311 36.3 +1.6 38.7
Ben Pennings Greens 1,467 6.4 -1.0 6.9
Jeffrey Hodges Independent 569 2.5 +2.5 2.6
Karel Boele People Decide 233 1.0 +1.0 1.0
Jim Eldridge Independent 150 0.7 +0.7 0.7
Jarrod Wirth Independent 142 0.6 +0.6 0.6
Informal 652 2.8

2016 mayoral two-party-preferred result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing Redist
Graham Quirk Liberal National 12,427 57.9 -2.7 54.8
Rod Harding Labor 9,049 42.1 +2.7 45.2
Exhausted 1,453 6.3

Booth breakdown

Booths in Doboy have been divided into three parts: east, central and west.

The LNP lost the two-party-preferred vote for council in all three wards, with Labor’s vote ranging from 50.2% in the centre to 51.9% in the east.

The LNP did better on the mayoral vote, with a two-party-preferred vote ranging from 53.5% in the east to 54.3% in the west.

Voter group LNP council 2PP LNP mayoral 2PP Total votes % of votes
West 48.4 54.3 6,593 30.2
Central 49.8 53.6 5,136 23.5
East 48.1 53.5 2,835 13.0
Other votes 52.3 57.2 6,034 27.6
Pre-poll 47.1 53.8 1,245 5.7

Election results in Doboy at the 2016 Brisbane City Council election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes for council and lord mayor.

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