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Federal electorate · Qld.

Brisbane

Results and projection across recent federal elections.

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Projection for Brisbane

GRN
30.6%
LNP
30.1%
ALP
28.3%
ONP
7.7%

The line traces Brisbane's real 2025 primary vote forward using the polling trend for inner-metropolitan seats nationally — not a poll of this seat specifically, and that category has only around 28 polls tracked over 14 months across every seat of its kind in the country, so read the shape of the line as directional, not a precise forecast. The actual 2028 projection number (shown at the end of the line, in the table below, and everywhere else on the site) also blends in Qld.'s own state-level polling 50/50 with this classification trend — the chart just doesn't visualize that second component, so the end of the line glides onto the real, state-blended number over its final stretch rather than matching the classification-only shape exactly. There's only one projection number for Brisbane, this is just showing how the polling got there.

Labor wins in 42% of simulations
Labor 57.5%
Coalition (LNP) 42.5%

Two-candidate-preferred, 2028 projection — the top two contenders are recalculated from the projected primary votes above (so a surging party can break into contention even if it wasn't one of the top two last election), and every other party's vote is distributed between them as preferences using standard flow assumptions, not seat-specific sourced preference data. Genuine toss-up: a single snapshot count of today's polling would have Greens narrowly ahead instead (a 4.3% margin). The split shown above is the median result from just the simulated outcomes where Labor actually wins, out of a 10,000-run Monte Carlo simulation built on the same real preference-flow model.

Get to know the electorate

Brisbane

4.6%
Unemployment rate
0.5pt below Australia's 5.1% average
Classification
Inner-metropolitan
Created
1901
Size
57 km²
Current member
Madonna Jarrett (Labor)
Population
183,255
Median age
34
Median household income
$2,114/wk
Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander
1.4%

Ancestry

European
69.2%
Australian
28.1%

People could report up to two ancestries. Grouped by region from the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller regions outside that list aren't counted.

Language spoken at home

English only
76.6%
Mandarin
2.5%
Spanish
1.9%
Italian
1.0%
Portuguese
0.9%

Language spoken most often at home.

Religious affiliation

No Religion
45.4%
Christian
31.4%
Hinduism
2.5%

All people. Christian combines denominations in the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller denominations outside that list aren't counted. Other faiths shown individually.

Education (highest level attained)

University Educated
46.3%
High School
25.5%
TAFE Educated
19.1%

People aged 15+. University Educated: Bachelor degree or higher. TAFE Educated: Certificate or Diploma. High School: no further qualification.

Housing

Renting
54%
Owned (Active Mortgage)
25%
Owned (No Mortgage)
19%

Households. Owned (No Mortgage) / Owned (Active Mortgage) / Renting.

Occupation

White collar
73%
Blue collar
26%

Employed people (15+). White collar: Managers, Professionals, Clerical & Administrative, Sales. Blue collar: Trades, Community & Personal Service, Machinery Operators, Labourers.

Past Results | Brisbane

20222025Projection
ALP27.3%32.1%28.3%
LNP37.7%34.3%30.1%
GRN27.2%25.9%30.6%
ONP2.2%2.5%7.7%
Other5.6%5.2%3.3%

Latest update: 2 October 2026