The 2028 Queensland local elections are scheduled to be held on 25 March 2028 to elect the mayors and councils of the 77 local government areas in Queensland, Australia.
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Electoral systems
Mayors and single-member wards
All 77 councils use optional preferential voting (OPV) for mayoral elections. Under OPV, voters are only required to vote for one candidates, although they can choose to preference other candidates.[2]
In the 22 councils that use single-member wards (including Brisbane, Gold Coast and Townsville) OPV is also used.[3]
Multi-member wards
Only Ipswich uses multi-member wards, with four two-member wards (resulting in eight total councillors).[4]
No form of preferential voting is in place, with plurality block voting (also referred to as first-past-the-post by the Electoral Commission) is instead used, where voters are only required to mark the same amount of candidates as there are positions to be elected − in the case of Ipswich, two candidates.[5][6]
Undivided councils
54 councils are undivided, meaning they do not use any forms of wards and all councillors are elected in a single area representing the entire LGA.[7]
Plurality block voting is used for these councils.[5]
Party changes before elections
A number of councillors joined, left or formed parties before the 2024 elections.
| Council | Ward | Councillor | Former party | New party | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns | Division 5 | Rob Pyne | Ind. Socialist Alliance | Independent Greens | 29 April 2024 | ||
Political parties
Queensland councils are largely non-partisan. Most wards are not contested by political parties and are rarely successful when they do. The sole exception to this is Brisbane, which is contested by the Liberal National Party, Labor and the Greens. These parties are all likely to recontest in 2028.[8] There are also a number of councillors and candidates who are members of political parties but ran as independents.
References
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