Council margin – LNP 22.3%
Mayoral margin – LNP 20.4%
Incumbent councillor
Ryan Murphy, since 2019. Previously councillor for Doboy 2012-2019. Ryan Murphy replaced Adrian Schrinner as councillor for Chandler in April 2019.
Geography
Eastern suburbs of Brisbane. Chandler covers suburbs at the eastern edge of Brisbane, including Carindale, Mansfield, Mackenzie and Rochedale.
Redistribution
Chandler shifted north-west, losing Rochedale at the southern end of the ward to Macgregor and gaining Wakerley at the northern end from Doboy and part of Mount Gravatt East from Holland Park at the western end of the ward. These changes cut the LNP’s margin from 24.6% to 22.3%.
History
Liberal councillor Michael Caltabiano was appointed to represent Chandler ward in 1996, replacing fellow Liberal Graeme McDougall, who resigned from council to run for the federal seat of Griffith. McDougall won the seat in 1996, defeating Labor candidate Kevin Rudd, who came back and beat him in 1998.
He was re-elected in 1997, 2000 and 2004. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 2000 to 2002.
In 2005, Caltabiano resigned from council to run for the Chatsworth state by-election. He lost his seat at the 2006 state election.
The 2005 Chandler by-election was won by Liberal candidate Adrian Schrinner. He was re-elected in 2008 with a 21.2% margin, and re-elected again in 2012 with a 26.8% margin. Schrinner was elected deputy mayor in 2011, after sitting deputy mayor Graham Quirk was appointed as lord mayor. Schrinner was re-elected with a similarly large margin at the 2016 election.
Lord mayor Graham Quirk retired in early 2019 and Schrinner was appointed to fill the remainder of his term as lord mayor of Brisbane. Schrinner vacated his ward and fellow LNP councillor Ryan Murphy was appointed to fill the casual vacancy. Murphy had represented the ultra-marginal neighbouring ward of Doboy since 2012.
Candidates
- Penny O’Neill (Labor)
- Ryan Murphy (Liberal National)
- Steph Moss (Greens)
Assessment
Chandler is the safest LNP ward in Brisbane, and there is no serious prospect of the ward changing hands. The last-minute shift in wards for Ryan Murphy may weaken his position slightly but that won’t be of any concern.
2016 council result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Adrian Schrinner | Liberal National | 15,591 | 70.2 | -4.2 | 67.8 |
| Torryn Saker | Labor | 4,755 | 21.4 | -2.4 | 23.5 |
| Geoff Ebbs | Greens | 1,865 | 8.4 | +6.6 | 8.4 |
| Others | 0.4 | ||||
| Informal | 477 | 2.1 |
2016 council two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Adrian Schrinner | Liberal National | 15,867 | 74.6 | -2.1 | 72.3 |
| Torryn Saker | Labor | 5,390 | 25.4 | +2.1 | 27.7 |
| Exhausted | 954 | 4.3 |
2016 mayoral result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Graham Quirk | Liberal National | 15,035 | 67.5 | -5.6 | 65.0 |
| Rod Harding | Labor | 5,279 | 23.7 | +4.4 | 25.6 |
| Ben Pennings | Greens | 1,154 | 5.2 | -0.6 | 5.6 |
| Jeffrey Hodges | Independent | 424 | 1.9 | +1.9 | 1.8 |
| Karel Boele | People Decide | 159 | 0.7 | +0.7 | 0.8 |
| Jim Eldridge | Independent | 134 | 0.6 | +0.6 | 0.5 |
| Jarrod Wirth | Independent | 105 | 0.5 | +0.5 | 0.4 |
| Informal | 487 | 2.1 |
2016 mayoral two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Graham Quirk | Liberal National | 15,190 | 72.9 | -3.8 | 70.4 |
| Rod Harding | Labor | 5,637 | 27.1 | +3.8 | 29.6 |
| Exhausted | 1,463 | 6.6 |
Booth breakdown
Booths in Chandler have been split between the north and south.
The LNP’s vote was stronger in the north than the south.
| Voter group | LNP council 2PP | LNP mayoral 2PP | Total votes | % of votes |
| North | 73.6 | 71.7 | 10,687 | 44.0 |
| South | 69.2 | 66.5 | 5,785 | 23.8 |
| Other votes | 73.2 | 72.7 | 5,666 | 23.3 |
| Pre-poll | 71.6 | 69.7 | 2,138 | 8.8 |
Election results in Coorparoo at the 2016 Brisbane City Council election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes for council and lord mayor.
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