Electoral district of Algester

Algester Queensland—Legislative Assembly
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′S152°57′E / 27.700°S 152.950°E / -27.700; 152.950
Electorates around Algester: Mount Ommaney Miller Toohey Inala Algester Stretton Jordan Logan Woodridge

2008 map

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]

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

Member		Party	Term
	Karen Struthers	Labor	2001–2012
	Anthony Shorten	Liberal National	2012–2015
	Leeanne Enoch	Labor	2015–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Algester

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Queensland state election § Algester.[ edit ]

2024 Queensland state election: Algester ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Leeanne Enoch	15,463	45.81	−13.11
	Liberal National	Jitendra Prasad	10,871	32.21	+6.87
	Greens	Andrea Wildin	3,219	9.54	+1.05
	One Nation	George Maris	1,603	4.75	−2.5
	Independent KAP	Rhys Bosley	1,560	4.62	+4.62
	Family First	Jane Turner	1,035	3.07	+3.07
Total formal votes			33,751	95.38	−0.39
Informal votes			1,636	4.62	0.39
Turnout			35,387	87.94	+0.32
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Leeanne Enoch	19,398	57.47	−10.3
	Liberal National	Jitendra Prasad	14,353	42.53	+10.3
	Labor hold		Swing	-10.3

Primary vote results in Algester (Parties that have never gotten 5% of the vote are omitted)

  Labor

  Liberal/Liberal National

  Greens

  One Nation

  Katter's Australian

  Independent

Two-candidate-preferred vote results in Algester

References

1. "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.
2. "State District Map of Algester" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Queensland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
3. "Labor's Leeanne Enoch to become one of two Indigenous MPs". ABC News. 1 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
4. "2024 State General Election – Algester – District Summary". Electoral Commission of Queensland . 8 November 2024. Retrieved 8 November 2024.