Brisbane Council election 2024 LIVE updates: Counting begins in ...

Despite signs LNP Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner will be returned to City Hall, Labor’s candidate is remaining upbeat at ALP HQ.

Tracey Price, speaking to Nine at 8.45pm, said she felt “great”.

“I’m so proud of the whole team and the campaign we’ve run, everything has been so positive and I’m so proud of everybody,” she said.

“I think we’ve made a positive influence across the city and running against five men, essentially is what I’ve done, and that’s difficult in itself.”

On the unofficial indicative two-candidate result, Schrinner is on 54.49 per cent to Price’s 45.51 per cent.

There have been no concessions or victory speeches yet.

With 164,888 votes counted in the Brisbane mayoral race, Adrian Schrinner, has secured 75,035 (47 per cent) and is almost certain to be re-elected.

Schrinner may have warned of a Coalition of Chaos, but as far as the mayoral race goes you would need to combine the primary votes given to Labor’s Tracey Price (42,221) and the Greens’ Jonathan Sriranganathan (33,492) to get ahead of the LNP incumbent.

It remains to be seen whether enough Greens voters allocated preferences to Labor for Price to close the gap on Schrinner.

In the state by-election in Inala, Labor candidate Margie Nightingale is leading with 39 per cent of the vote, ahead of the LNP’s Trang Yen (27 per cent).

For the first time since 1992, there is not a Palaszczuk leading the local race. After resigning as premier, Labor’s Annastacia Palaszczuk vacated the seat she effectively inherited from dad Henry.

Of the 4444 votes counted so far, almost 10 per cent were informal. By comparison, the Greens’ Navdeep Singh Sidhu had 12 per cent of the vote.

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate is set to be re-elected, picking up one in every two votes counted so far, while Ipswich Mayor Teresa Harding has a comfortable lead in her local race.

In Moreton Bay, Peter Flannery doesn’t even have a challenger, so we know he will be re-elected mayor.

After the retirement of Logan Mayor Darren Power, Jon Raven looks set to take the robes, so far leading Brett Raguse.

The early count is much closer on the Sunshine Coast, with Ashley Robinson ahead of Rosanna Natoli, with Jason Opray coming third in a field of six.

In Redland City, former federal MP Andrew Laming is set to fail in his bid to return to politics. With 8.5 per cent of the vote counted, Jos Mitchell has secured one in every two votes counted so far.

Independent councillor Nicole Johnston will hold her ward of Tennyson, securing 61.10 per cent of the unofficial preliminary count.

Johnston was an LNP councillor before being suspended and resigning from the party in 2010.

She was the only independent councillor to be elected to Brisbane City Council in 70 years.

So far, 6.31 per cent of the vote has been counted in Tennyson.

The LNP’s Henry Swindon is coming second with 17.44 per cent of the vote.

The LNP’s Tracy Davis is comfortably ahead in the McDowall ward, where 7.45 per cent of the vote has been counted so far.

McDowall, which included suburbs such as Bridgeman Downs and Everton Park, was considered a safe LNP seat with a margin of 13.5 per cent ahead of the election.

With 2462 votes counted so far, Davis, the incumbent, has 59.60 per cent of the vote, with Labor’s Mark Wolhuter coming second on 20.82 per cent.

Former Labor MP John Mickel, now an academic at QUT, is calling the Brisbane City Council mayoral race for Adrian Schrinner based on the numbers he’s seen so far.

“He’s won the mayoralty, on 45 [per cent primary vote]. He cannot lose with that number and with Tracey Price with a 2 in front of it,” he told 4BC.

“Let’s go bold – I declare the election for Adrian Schrinner straight up.

“The other call I’m going to make is that I think Labor is in desperate trouble in Ipswich West. Labor with [a primary vote with] a 3 in front of it and no preferences, the Libs with 39 and getting preferences. I don’t think they can be beaten from there.

“I know it’s early count but there’s a trend there.”

With 20 per cent of the vote counted in the Ipswich West state by-election, the LNP’s Darren Zanow has a narrow lead over Labor’s Wendy Bourne.

The seat was vacated by Labor MP Jim Madden and the state opposition will be hoping to secure an early win ahead of the state election in October.

At 7.45pm, Zanow was 123 primary votes ahead of Bourne.

While many regard Ipswich as One Nation heartland, in the early count the party’s candidate Mark Bone was running last, behind Legalise Cannabis Qld’s Melody Lindsay.

The Electoral Commission of Queensland has yet to display a tally of votes in the Inala state by-election. Labor expects to have a better chance of holding that seated, vacated by former premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

About 1.1 million Queenslanders voted early in the local government election, while about one million voted today.

An ECQ spokeswoman said final turnout for the election would be determined after the return of postal votes, with about 140,000 votes still able to be returned before the deadline of Tuesday, March 26.

Booths closed at 6pm, but any electors still in a queue were allowed to cast their vote.

Former LNP lord mayor (and Queensland premier) Campbell Newman has complained about his voting experience today.

On X, Newman claimed a polling booth in the Hamilton ward, held by the LNP’s Julia Dixon, had run out of ballot papers.

In a statement provided earlier in response to questions about wait times and reported issues, an ECQ spokeswoman said it had more than 7000 staff working at more than 1000 polling booths.

“The ECQ has received very few reports from returning officers about issues at booths,” she said.

“The ECQ will be reviewing data and turnout numbers from today to inform planning for election day for the state general election in October.”