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The Australian state of Queensland is divided into 30 electoral divisions for the purposes of electing the Australian House of Representatives. At the 2022 federal election, the Liberal National Party of Queensland won 21 seats, the Australian Labor Party won 5 seats, the Greens won 3 seats, Katter's Australian Party won 1 seat. [1]
This is a list of electoral division results for the 2019 Australian federal election in the state of Queensland. [1] This election was held using instant-runoff voting. At this election, there were three "turn-overs" in Queensland. Labor won the seats of Griffith, Lilley and Moreton despite the LNP finishing first.
The Electoral Districts Act (1872) resulted in 42 one-member electorates for the 1873 election, while in 1875 the Cook District Representation Act added the Electoral district of Cook. [1] [2] Four electorates were renamed: Hamlet of Fortitude Valley became Fortitude Valley; Town of Brisbane became Brisbane City; Town of Ipswich became Ipswich
This is a list of electoral division results for the 2022 Australian federal election in the state of Queensland. This election was held using instant-runoff voting. In Queensland in this election, there were two "turn-overs"—the Australian Greens took two seats where the Greens candidate was not leading in the first count.
The Liberals took the seat in 1993, and have held it for all but two years since then without much difficulty. To date, it is the last time Labor has held a Sunshine Coast seat. Its most prominent members have been Sir Charles Adermann , who was Deputy Leader of the Country Party 1964–66, and Peter Slipper , who served as Speaker of the ...
The seat is located in coastal Queensland, including the towns of Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Childers, Gayndah and Monto. The electoral division had previously centred on Gladstone and its surrounding area. On those boundaries, it was a marginal seat that traded hands between the Australian Labor Party and the National Party of Australia.
Ruth Fairfax, the division's namesake. The division was created in 1984 and is named after Ruth Fairfax, founder of the Country Women's Association.It is located in the Sunshine Coast region north of Brisbane and includes the towns of Coolum, Yaroomba, Marcoola, Mudjimba, Maroochydore, Buderim, Woombye, Bli Bli, Yandina, Nambour, Mapleton, Kenilworth and Eumundi.
The voting population of each Australian electoral division, as of the 2022 federal election. Electorates (also known as electoral divisions or seats) of the Australian House of Representatives are single member electoral districts for the lower house of the Parliament of the Commonwealth. There are currently 151 electorates.