The electoral district of Algester is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in south-west Brisbane.[1] It includes the suburbs of Algester, Parkinson, Hillcrest, Boronia Heights, Forestdale, Larapinta, Heathwood, Forest Lake, Doolandella and Pallara, as well as the Greenbank Military Range. It borders the electoral districts of Sunnybank, Stretton, Logan, Lockyer, Bundamba and Inala.[2]
| Algester Queensland—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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 Map of the electoral district of Algester, 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Leeanne Enoch | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Suburb of Algester | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 35,108 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 66 km2 (25.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Inner-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°42′S 152°57′E / 27.700°S 152.950°E | ||||||||||||||
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The Algester electoral district was created at the 1999 redistribution from the former electoral district of Archerfield, and was contested for the first time at the 2001 election. It had been a safe seat for the Labor Party since its inception, as had Archerfield, but it was won by Anthony Shorten of the Liberal National Party at the 2012 election. Leeanne Enoch won the seat back for Labor at the 2015 election. Enoch is the first Indigenous Australian woman elected to the Queensland parliament.[3]
Members for Algester
edit| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Struthers | Labor | 2001–2012 | |
| Anthony Shorten | Liberal National | 2012–2015 | |
| Leeanne Enoch | Labor | 2015–present | |
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Leeanne Enoch | 17,452 | 58.92 | +7.00 | |
| Liberal National | Nerissa Aitken | 7,505 | 25.34 | +3.65 | |
| Greens | Josie Mira | 2,514 | 8.49 | +0.29 | |
| One Nation | Wayne Stacey | 2,147 | 7.25 | −10.95 | |
| Total formal votes | 29,618 | 96.29 | +1.53 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,142 | 3.71 | −1.53 | ||
| Turnout | 30,760 | 87.62 | +0.47 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Leeanne Enoch | 20,073 | 67.77 | +3.35 | |
| Liberal National | Nerissa Aitken | 9,545 | 32.23 | −3.35 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +3.35 | |||
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Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
References
edit- ^ "Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ "State District Map of Algester" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Queensland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ^ "Labor's Leeanne Enoch to become one of two Indigenous MPs". ABC News. 1 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
- ^ 2020 State General Election – Algester – District Summary, ECQ.