2016 Gold Coast City Council election
Local elections in Australia
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All 15 members on the City Council (including the mayor) 8 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2016 Gold Coast City Council election was held on 19 March 2016 to elect a mayor and 14 councillors to the City of Gold Coast. The election was held as part of the statewide local elections in Queensland, Australia.[1]
Results
Mayor
This section is an excerpt from 2016 Queensland mayoral elections § Gold Coast.[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Tom Tate | 172,735 | 63.86 | ||
Independent | Penny Toland | 53,081 | 19.62 | ||
Independent | Jim Wilson | 25,181 | 9.31 | ||
Independent | Brett Lambert | 8,151 | 3.01 | ||
Independent | Andrew Middleton | 5,978 | 2.21 | ||
Independent | John Abbott | 5,369 | 1.98 | ||
Total formal votes | 270,495 | 94.73 | |||
Informal votes | 15,050 | 5.27 | |||
Turnout | 285,545 | ||||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Independent | Tom Tate | 176,538 | 73.14 | ||
Independent | Penny Toland | 64,826 | 26.86 | ||
Independent hold | Swing |