McDowall – Brisbane 2020

Council margin – LNP 10.6%
Mayoral margin – LNP 8.8%

Incumbent councillor
Tracy Davis, since 2019. Tracy Davis replaced Norm Wyndham as councillor for McDowall in April 2019.

Geography
Northern Brisbane. McDowall covers the suburbs of Bridgeman Downs, Everton Park and McDowall, and parts of Aspley, Chermside West and Stafford.

Redistribution
Changes were extremely minor and did not produce any measurable shifts in the margin.

History

McDowall was won in 2000 by Labor candidate Rita Collins by a slim 1.1% margin.

In 2004, Collins lost to Liberal candidate Norm Wyndham by a 4.1% margin.

Wyndham was re-elected in 2008 with a 12.6% margin and again in 2012 with a 23.4% margin. Wyndham’s margin was cut to 15.2% in 2016, and he retired in 2019 to be succeeded by LNP councillor Tracy Davis.

Davis previously served as the state MP for Aspley from 2009 to 2017, when she lost her seat. She served on the LNP frontbench from 2010 until 2017, including as a minister during the Newman government.

Candidates

Assessment
McDowall is a safe LNP ward.

2016 council result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Norm Wyndham Liberal National 15,104 61.0 -12.2
Liam Culverhouse Labor 7,337 29.6 +3.2
Joshua Sanderson Greens 2,320 9.4 +9.0
Informal 560 2.2

2016 council two-party-preferred result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Norm Wyndham Liberal National 15,350 65.2 -8.2
Liam Culverhouse Labor 8,193 34.8 +8.2
Exhausted 1,214 4.9

2016 mayoral result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Graham Quirk Liberal National 15,054 60.6 -11.0
Rod Harding Labor 7,418 29.9 +10.0
Ben Pennings Greens 1,436 5.8 -0.9
Jeffrey Hodges Independent 514 2.1 +2.1
Karel Boele People Decide 163 0.7 +0.7
Jim Eldridge Independent 146 0.6 +0.6
Jarrod Wirth Independent 114 0.5 +0.5
Informal 532 2.1

2016 mayoral two-party-preferred result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Graham Quirk Liberal National 15,369 65.5 -11.2
Rod Harding Labor 8,110 34.5 +11.2
Exhausted 1,366 5.5

Booth breakdown

Booths in McDowall have been divided into three parts: north, south-east and south-west.

The LNP vote was highest in the north (68-69%) compared to 65% in the south-west and 59% in the south-east.

Voter group LNP council 2PP LNP mayoral 2PP Total votes % of votes
North 67.9 68.6 6,375 25.7
South-West 64.6 65.1 5,781 23.3
South-East 59.1 59.4 3,923 15.8
Other votes 67.8 68.3 5,051 20.4
Pre-poll 64.2 62.9 3,631 14.7

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

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