Ryan – Australia 2025

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In the case of Higgins, it isn’t really a teal seat. Sure you had posh areas like Toorak and Malvern that are typical of teal seats but inner-city areas with high Greens votes (Prahran, Windsor, South Yarra) and middle suburban areas with strong Labor votes (Hughesdale, Carnegie, Murrumbeena) mean it isn’t exactly fertile ground for a teal campaign.

In the case of Ryan, as I’ve previously alluded to, they tried to get a teal campaign off the ground but they couldn’t because the Greens were already quite strong. It’s a bit tricky to run a grassroots campaign when the bulk of your ideal volunteers are already volunteering for the Greens.

I will be closely looking at the state results for this seat. This will be my method for determining the results:

Maiwar + Moggill + Cooper (Ryan) + Ferny Grove (Ryan)

* Suburbs of Cooper in Ryan: Bardon, Enoggera Reservoir, The Gap
* Suburbs of Ferny Grove in Ryan: Ferny Grove, Gaythorne, Grovely, Keperra, Mitchelton, Upper Kedron

At the last state election, this was the TPP here:

* Labor: 52.1%
* LNP: 47.9%

On council results however it’s an LNP seat and I would assume quite comfortably but I haven’t checked the council results yet.

My personal view is that the LNP vote at the state election next week will be below the Council Result but above the Federal 2022 and probably the Federal 2025 result. Crisafulli is less moderate than the BCC LNP but more moderate than the Federal LNP hence the difference.

@Nimalan I agree. I just checked the council results for Ryan, the LNP would’ve won 57.5% of the TCP vote against the Greens in Ryan at the BCC elections. That means yes, it is probable that the Greens only won Ryan because of A. Preferences and B. either a protest vote against the majors or a teal vote. The LNP even held onto Walter Taylor which is in Maiwar.

@ Nether portal
Yeah this teal is demographically Tealish Small L liberal so more like Kooyong, Goldstein etc. Right wing economically but socially moderate supports climate action a decent 2030 target etc. It is the poshest seat in Brisbane.

@NP the last state results are almost identical to the federal results so that may be a glimmer of hope for the lnp

Last state election, Labor got 53.2% of the TPP which even higher than what Kevin Rudd got in 2007, if that was repeated in 2022. Albo would have picked up Petrie, Forde, Longman, Herbert and Leichardt as well. Labor only got 46% of the primary in QLD in May 2022.

@Nimalan Labor got 46% of the TPP vote not the primary vote.

Also I think he’s referring to Ryan itself, and that is true because Labor’s notional TPP against the LNP in Ryan is 52.4% as of the 2022 federal election.

if the lnp can regain a small percentage that was lost in 2022 it may flip back

@ NP
yes that was a typo Labor got 46% of the TPP i mean.
Yes i agree but 2022 election showed a class polarization which was not there at the state election. We see that in the 2023 NSW state election as well where State Labor overperformed in Western Sydney, Hunter Valley and Southern Sydney but underperformed in Northern Sydney compared to Federal results. In short, the climate change debate meant Labor underperformed among the White Working Class at a federal level while the Federal LNP underperformed in affluent areas. Dutton is more polarising than Crisafulli so that divide will still be an issue.

@Nimalan with the LNP all but certain to win the state election, do you think that on state results they will have majorities of the TPP in Brisbane and Ryan?

@ NP
No dispute the LNP will the state election.
1. Yes i do think on state results they will majority of the TPP in Brisbane and Ryan. However, IMHO it will be slightly less than they got at the BCC elections though
2. On state results i also expect them do quite well in Moreton and Griffith and massively over-perform the Federal results although i am not confident enough to make a prediction they will a majority of the TPP either way.

griffith will likely remain grn due to the overwhelming left vote in that seat and the fact its at quota so likely wont see any changes with the redistribution however i believe the lnp will benefit from the redistribution in rankin and maybe moreton and blair also in seats like lilley brisbane ryan and dickson but will likely concentrate more of the left vote in oxley due to it taking in more of ipswich from blair.

Based off of state election results, unless the Greens muster something miraculous, LNP gain.

@James agree and Paddington Ward will go back to the LNP.

@ NP
The State LNP are more moderate than the Federal LNP on climate should this be an opportunity to announce a 2030 target?

Nether Portal, Paddington ward is too far away to predict. The council will have state and maybe even federal drag by then so the greens will probably do just fine.

@Nimalan yes.

@TBR except the BCC LNP are notably really moderate.

Will be interesting to see overlapping federal results

Primary vote results here from the state election (official first preference count):

* LNP: 41.2% (+2.7%)
* Labor: 28.4% (+6.1%)
* Greens: 26.6% (–3.6%)
* One Nation: 3.7% (+1.4%)
* Family First: 0.1% (+0.1%)

Swings are from the 2022 federal election. Note that Family First only ran in Cooper and only a few booths in Cooper are in Ryan.

This spells trouble for the Greens in Ryan as not only is their vote dropping and the LNP and Labor vote is increasing, on state results Labor would come second and thus knock the Greens out of the TCP. Based on those I think Labor would narrowly win this but I’m not sure. Of course there are moderates who prefer the BCC LNP over the state and federal LNP but the state LNP over the more conservative federal LNP and then moderates who prefer state Labor over the more progressive federal Labor, the latter group of federal LNP voters likely being the reason Labor still outpolls the Greens on the state level in the seat of Moggill but not federally (or at least not in 2022).

@ NP a couple of points.
1. Yeah i agree the Greens could be wary and remember that this is a Tealish seat not an ecosocialist seat and need to run a separate message from the campaign in Wills.
2. I think incumbency has an impact for example Jonty Bush is very popular in Cooper and suppressed the Greens vote in the overlapping booths.
3. The Greens vote may have been suppressed (versus Labor) in Moggil as neither the Greens nor Labor had it as a target seat. At a federal Level, Labor voters in Moggill may just vote Greens to stop the LNP winning it back.
4. I think Family First vote can transcend class lines but in an affluent seat like Ryan if they ran at a federal level they would probably just take votes of the LNP while in a middle class area like Bonner, Petrie they can potentially take from both.
5. I do agree the State LNP are more Moderate so all else being equal i think the Federal LNP would do slightly worse especially the lack of a 2030 target.
6. I do agree there will be voters who find the Federal Labor party too progressive and vote for the LNP but happy to do so at a state level. Those voters probably dont exist in Ryan though but can be found in Petrie, Longman etc

State Labor, even at the recent state election, far outperformed federal Labor in 2022 in this neck of the woods. State Labor holds Cooper (Jonty Bush got a primary vote swing to her) and Ferny Grove. There was a sizable swing to Labor in Maiwar (a Green seat) and a small-ish swing to the LNP.

I mentioned in one of the first posts here that this is a blue/green seat and the Greens won in the absence of a teal. The swings to the Greens may have been driven by anti-Morrison factors. A large cohort of Greens voters, especially outside UQ and St Lucia, are not rusted-on voters and are not economically left-wing or socialist. They may be agnostic or apathetic to issues like Palestine.

There may be some key economic/housing issues that could put off Greens voters in suburbs away from the Brisbane River and Fig Tree Pocket (that is outside of St Lucia, Toowong and Indooroopilly). A lot of people are either landlords or homeowners or willingly chose to rent expensive homes and may be put off by Greens’ proposals for rent freezes or caps.

I mean, the Greens MP here is a landlord with six properties. There’s probably a lot of people like her in the wealthier parts of this electorate who will be turned off by the federal greens’ shift from an environmental to housing based party.

Agree, and this is a challenge the Libs face what works in West End does not really work across the river. The Greens need to find a way to separate the message from what is targeting to Green Left/Young Socialists. I believe the base of the Greens is actually young renters/students and socialists while Professional women is something they have picked up as the Libs have moved rightwards. MCM grandstanding on housing and looking like holding Labor to ransom maybe putting off centrist voters. Professional women are the base of the Teals and in the past the Australian Democrats.

@A A
Your point stands, but note that Watson-Brown has three or four properties, not six. Three of them are listed twice, once as 50% ownership in her section and again as 50% ownership in her spouse’s section. They don’t own 50% of six houses; they jointly own 100% of three houses.
The other is where she has listed one house as belonging to ‘dependent children’. Unsure if she owns this or is just declaring a close family link to a property.
https://www.aph.gov.au/-/media/03_Senators_and_Members/32_Members/Register/47P/SZ/Watson-Brown_47P.pdf

Oh true, fair enough. Didn’t realise, just read through the register of interests quickly.

State TPP here (2024):

* Labor/Greens: 51.3%
* LNP: 48.7%

NOTE: there swings are from the last federal election. Note that I must’ve made an error in my previous calculation as it had Labor 0.2% lower in 2020 than in 2024 when three of the four overlapping seats had swings to the LNP on TPP/TCP (Cooper is an exception, there was a small swing to Labor there, but unless the swings to Labor in the Cooper booths were above average I don’t see how Labor could’ve increased their TPP here when they had a decreased TPP in two of the three overlapping seats where they came second (and the Greens had a swing against them in Maiwar). Either that or I’ve missed a booth or two in my 2024 calculation.

Wait no never mind the swings are correct.

TPP:
* Labor/Greens: 51.3% (–0.8%) (–1.1% Labor, –1.4% Greens)
* LNP: 48.7% (+0.8%) (+1.1% Labor, +1.3% Greens)

Compare this to the last BCC election:

TCP:
* LNP: 57.5% (+9.6%) (+10.1%)
* Greens: 42.5% (–9.6%) (–10.1%)

NOTE: the first swing is from the last state election and the second is from the last federal election.

i hear the klibs are quitely confident of regaining this

According to The Poll Bludger this seat contains:

* 43% of Cooper
* 50% of Ferny Grove
* 100% of Maiwar
* All of Moggill except for Karana Downs, Kholo and Mount Crosby