Labor has nominated lawyer and small business owner Tracey Price as its lord mayoral candidate for the 2024 Brisbane City Council election.

The party officially endorsed Ms Price on Friday as she was the only person within the party to nominate to run for Brisbane’s top civic job.

She will square off against LNP incumbent Adrian Schrinner at the next council election, which is due to be held in March next year.

Ms Price has signalled that she will focus on housing, service delivery, and traffic congestion during her campaign for the lord mayoralty.

“I also know that cost of living is impacting household budgets right across Brisbane,” she said.

Ms Price also pointed to public and active transport as another issue she would campaign on in her bid to win City Hall.

“Building bikeways and footpaths should be something council does every day of the week,” she said.

Schrinner running for re-election

The LNP has held the Brisbane lord mayoralty and won five successive elections since 2004 while also controlling the council chamber since the 2008 election.

Mr Schrinner became Lord Mayor in 2019 following the retirement of his predecessor Graham Quirk and won a term in his own right at the 2020 poll with a primary vote of 47.74 per cent.

Ms Price will need to overcome Mr Schrinner’s two-party-preferred margin of 6.32 per cent in order to oust him from office.

Mr Schrinner, who previously served as a councillor between 2005 and 2019 and was deputy mayor for eight years, has already declared that he will run for re-election in the March election.

The ABC reported in June that Ms Price was a potential contender for the lord mayoralty after a website with red colouring emerged that detailed the lawyer’s background and experience.

At the time, former state government minister Kate Jones declined to say if she would put her hand up to be Labor’s candidate.

The Greens, which received 15.4 per cent of the primary vote at the last election, are yet to announce its candidate for lord mayor.

‘Ready to hit the ground running’

Former television journalist Patrick Condren, who ran as Labor’s candidate in 2020, picked up 30.94 per cent of the primary vote.

The LNP holds a commanding majority in the council chamber, with 19 of the 26 seats, while Labor holds five, the Greens hold one, and Tennyson Ward councillor Nicole Johnston sits as an independent.

Ms Price, who comes from Labor’s Left faction, works as a lawyer and owns a sewing shop.

Council Opposition Leader Jared Cassidy said there was no time to waste ahead of the poll, saying Ms Price was “ready to hit the ground running”.

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