Electoral district of Aspley

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Aspley
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Map of the electoral district of Aspley, 2017.pdf
Map of the electoral district of Aspley, 2017
State Queensland
Dates current1960–present
MP Bart Mellish
Party Labor
Namesake Aspley
Electors 37,792 (2020)
Area36 km2 (13.9 sq mi)
DemographicOuter-metropolitan
Coordinates 27°20′S153°0′E / 27.333°S 153.000°E / -27.333; 153.000
Electorates around Aspley:
Pine Rivers Pine Rivers Murrumba
Everton Aspley Sandgate
Everton Stafford Nudgee
2008 map of Aspley QLD - Aspley 2008.png
2008 map of Aspley

Aspley is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. [1]

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The district is located in the north-eastern residential suburbs of Brisbane, encompassing Aspley, Bridgeman Downs and Carseldine, as well as parts of McDowall, Chermside West, Lawnton and Zillmere. It is now wholly within the local government area of Brisbane City Council, following the redistribution prior to the 2009 election.

The electorate was created at the 1959 redistribution from the former electorate of Chermside. Aspley was a safe Liberal seat until the collapse of the National-Liberal coalition in Queensland in 1983, when first-term Liberal member Beryce Nelson lost the seat to the Nationals' Brian Cahill a former local newsreader. Nelson then joined the Nationals and was subsequently preselected to contest Aspley at the 1986 election. She won and held the seat for that term and then was defeated by the Liberals' John Goss in 1989. Goss was defeated by Labor's Bonny Barry in Labor's landslide victory at the 2001 state election. Barry was herself defeated after three terms by Tracy Davis of the Liberal National Party at the 2009 state election. Davis was defeated at the 2017 state election by Labor's Bart Mellish. Mellish successfully defeated former politician Amanda Cooper (politician) at the 2020 state election. Cooper again contested the 2024 state election where her own scrutineers have reported she was 38 votes behind Mellish. [2] Mellish was ultimately successful in retaining the electorate.

Members for Aspley

MemberPartyTerm
  Fred Campbell Liberal 1960–1980
  Beryce Nelson Liberal 1980–1983
  Brian Cahill National 1983–1986
  Beryce Nelson National 1986–1989
  John Goss Liberal 1989–2001
  Bonny Barry Labor 2001–2009
  Tracy Davis Liberal National 2009–2017
  Bart Mellish Labor 2017–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Queensland state election § Aspley.[ edit ]
2020 Queensland state election: Aspley [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Bart Mellish 15,26145.51+8.00
Liberal National Amanda Cooper13,57940.50+0.77
Greens James Hansen2,9978.94−0.52
One Nation Walter Hardy1,1413.40−6.19
Civil Liberties & Motorists Neil Skilbeck3050.91−0.52
United Australia Joshua Morrison2470.74+0.74
Total formal votes33,53097.92+1.75
Informal votes7112.08−1.75
Turnout 34,24190.60+0.06
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Bart Mellish 18,49455.16+3.99
Liberal National Amanda Cooper15,03644.84−3.99
Labor hold Swing +3.99

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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. ↑ "Bart Mellish in fight of his life". heraldsun.com.au. 1 November 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  3. ↑ 2020 State General Election – Aspley – District Summary, ECQ.
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