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A Sex Party member has won top billing on the Brisbane Lord Mayor ballot paper next month.
The names were drawn today [27/03/2012] and Sex Party mayoral candidate Rory Killen will be the first name on the ballot followed by former Democrats senator Andrew Bartlett who is running as the Queensland Greens candidate.
Labor party candidate Ray Smith will have the third spot followed by independent Chris Carson and sitting LNP Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk was the last name drawn in the ballot.
Cr Quirk was unperturbed by the result, saying he would take it in his stride.
"If there's one thing we've learnt from Labor's thumping on the weekend it's that if voters think you've got the right policies and vision to govern then they will seek you out no matter where you are on the ballot," he said.
Mr Smith said he was "very happy" with the result but did not have any superstitions about drawning any place on the ballot saying he had met more than 25,000 people, knocked on 15,000 doors and spoke to 3000 people on the phone.
"I've always found in my life the harder I work the luckier I get," he said.
"It's fantastic to be in the jaws of the campaign."
Nominations for candidates in the April 28 poll closed at noon on Tuesday.
Mr Bartlett was a Queensland senator between 1997 and 2008 and will join fellow Greens members who are contesting 19 of Brisbane's 26 wards.
The Sex Party has put its exclusion from the state election behind it to endorse Mr Killen.
The party was barred from contesting the Queensland election for not having enough registered members.
Mr Killen is running as an independent who is endorsed by the Sex Party.
He is campaigning on a platform that includes reducing noise restrictions to encourage more house parties, and protecting entertainment venues from "burdensome" zoning requirements.
Former premier Peter Beattie's wife Heather Beattie will be another candidate to watch when she contests the Central ward for Labor.
Source: BrisbaneTimes.com.au
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