Council margin – ALP 11.5%
Mayoral margin – ALP 4.0%
Incumbent councillor
Jared Cassidy, since 2015.
Geography
Northern Brisbane. Deagon covers the suburbs of Brighton, Deagon, Boondall, Geebung, Sandgate, Shorncliffe and Taigum. These suburbs lie close to Moreton Bay at the northern end of the city.
History
Labor’s Victoria Newton won Deagon in the year 2000, polling 56% of the primary vote. She was re-elected in 2004 with an 11% margin. She won further terms in 2008 (7.9% margin) and 2012 (5.4% margin).
Newton resigned from council in August 2015 and her seat was filled by Jared Cassidy.
Cassidy survived a small swing against Labor to win a full term in 2016, and gained a big swing in 2020.
- Jared Cassidy (Labor)
- Edward Naus (Greens)
- Brock Alexander (Liberal National)
Assessment
Deagon is a safe Labor ward.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Jared Cassidy | Labor | 13,127 | 51.3 | +8.2 |
| Kimberley Washington | Liberal National | 8,919 | 34.9 | -8.1 |
| Anthony Walsh | Greens | 2,935 | 11.5 | -2.4 |
| Kathy Moloney | Motorists Party | 586 | 2.3 | +2.3 |
| Informal | 688 | 2.6 |
2020 council two-candidate-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Jared Cassidy | Labor | 14,818 | 61.5 | +7.7 |
| Kimberley Washington | Liberal National | 9,284 | 38.5 | -7.7 |
| Exhausted | 1,465 | 5.7 |
2020 mayoral result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Pat Condren | Labor | 11,706 | 42.7 | +3.3 |
| Adrian Schrinner | Liberal National | 10,941 | 39.9 | -6.5 |
| Kath Angus | Greens | 2,980 | 10.9 | +1.5 |
| Karagh-Mae Kelly | Animal Justice | 895 | 3.3 | +3.3 |
| Jeff Hodges | Motorists Party | 355 | 1.3 | +1.3 |
| Jarrod Wirth | Independent | 167 | 0.6 | -0.2 |
| Frank Jordan | Independent | 165 | 0.6 | +0.6 |
| John Dobinson | Independent | 119 | 0.4 | +0.4 |
| Ben Gorringe | Independent | 88 | 0.3 | +0.3 |
| Informal | 789 | 2.8 |
2020 mayoral two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Pat Condren | Labor | 13,457 | 54.0 | +5.9 |
| Adrian Schrinner | Liberal National | 11,468 | 46.0 | -5.9 |
| Exhausted | 2,491 | 9.1 |
Booths in Deagon have been divided into three parts: central, north and south.
Labor won a majority of the council two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 63.9% in the south to 65.2% in the centre.
| Voter group | GRN prim council | ALP 2PP council | ALP 2PP mayoral | Total votes | % of votes |
| South | 12.9 | 63.9 | 56.9 | 4,048 | 15.8 |
| North | 13.0 | 65.0 | 57.3 | 1,681 | 6.6 |
| Central | 14.0 | 65.2 | 58.1 | 1,651 | 6.5 |
| Pre-poll | 9.7 | 61.7 | 53.2 | 9,071 | 35.5 |
| Postal | 10.8 | 57.9 | 51.1 | 5,592 | 21.9 |
| Other votes | 13.6 | 60.4 | 62.4 | 3,524 | 13.8 |
Council election results in Deagon at the 2020 Brisbane City Council election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Liberal National Party and the Greens.
Mayoral election results in Deagon at the 2020 Brisbane City Council election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Liberal National Party and the Greens.
The LNP have disendorsed their candidate, citing “past comments that were previously not disclosed and do not align with our party’s values”.
On social media I have also heard allegations this fellow is a local pest, so it’s strange he got past the LNPs vetting process to begin with.
I was unendorsed for raising issue of bullying within the party and the homophobic culture in the party. Local pest you reckon, doubt that. You don’t even know me. I got past the LNP vetting process because there is NO vetting process.
Sad to hear you were kicked out for raising the typical ‘faceless’ bullying tactics that both major parties often use behind closed doors.
Yoh An, don’t believe everything you read from people who can’t be trusted to be objective on a matter. What Mr Alexander failed to mention is that Nine News reported last night that he faces three charges of unlawful stalking and two charges of breach of bail. Perhaps that was the real reason the LNP wanted nothing to do with him.
Sorry Wilson, I will probably do some better fact checking in future. Going back to this seat, even before this ‘incident’, it was never seen as a true target given the fact the LNP have to defend so many marginal seats and do not have much capacity to go on ‘offense’.
I guess this is probably a symptom of the LNP lacking the proper vetting practices, as they nominated some poor candidates for many seats previously (including kicking a few winnable targets away, like Vivian Lobo in Lilley and also Jessica Whelan in Lyons 2019).
I’m not sure about Whelan, but for Lobo, he misreported his address as being a property he legally owns, but it wasn’t inhabitable at the time according to neighbours. Is it going too far for a party to investigate a prospective candidate’s home to ensure it’s where they actually live? Perhaps it’s reasonable for a major party, after all Lobo has shown the need for it.
Brock do you agree that youth crime is ‘out of control’ in Brisbane and that young offenders who repeatedly breach their bail conditions should be on remand instead of running as LNP politicians
Brock, why are you claiming here that you were disendorsed for raising the issue of bullying within the party, while claiming in the Courier Mail that you were disendorsed because of comments you made about the owner of a BP service station?
@Wilson because it’s not actually him.
As expected, a huge boost to Labor here, basically non-competitive with the removal of the LNP candidate.
Given the result in Wynnum-Manly, I wonder what the result might have been here if there’d actually been a strong capable LNP opponent.