Electoral district of Gladstone

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Gladstone
QueenslandLegislative Assembly
ECQ-2017-Final-Gladstone.pdf
Electoral map of Gladstone 2017
State Queensland
Created1992
MP Glenn Butcher
Party Labor Party
Namesake Gladstone
Electors 33,589 (2020)
Area2,814 km2 (1,086.5 sq mi)
DemographicProvincial
Coordinates 23°57′S151°21′E / 23.950°S 151.350°E / -23.950; 151.350
Electorates around Gladstone:
Mirani Keppel Coral Sea
Callide Gladstone Coral Sea
Callide Callide Burnett
Electoral map of Gladstone 2008 QLD - Gladstone 2008.png
Electoral map of Gladstone 2008

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

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The seat was created as a reconfigured version of Port Curtis for the 1992 election. It consists of the city of Gladstone and some of the towns of the former Shire of Calliope. This includes the localities of Ambrose, Benaraby, Boyne Island, Builyan, Mount Larcom, Tannum Sands and Ubobo. The town of Calliope is now part of the Callide electoral district.[ citation needed ]

In the 2021 census, the electorate had a population of 50,317 people. [2]

The current member is Labor MP Glenn Butcher. Butcher won the seat following the retirement of long-serving independent Liz Cunningham, who won the seat on National Party preferences after defeating then Labor MP Neil Bennett at the 1995 election. Cunningham was a well-known local figure, having previously been Mayor of the Shire of Calliope prior to entering State politics. Her 1995 victory made her the first non-Labor member for Gladstone and its predecessors since 1932, and only the second since 1915.[ citation needed ]

Even though Cunningham had held the seat without much difficulty, Gladstone had almost always been a safe Labor seat in calculations of "traditional" two-party matchups–i. e., Labor vs. National before 2009, and Labor vs. LNP since 2009. This is due almost entirely to the presence of the city of Gladstone, a Labor stronghold for the better part of a century. Proving this, Labor would have held the seat on a margin of 11 percent during its meltdown of 2012. Thus, it was not considered an upset when Butcher, who had been Cunningham's Labor opponent in 2012, easily reclaimed the seat for Labor at the 2015 election. Underlining Labor's strength in the seat, Butcher won an outright majority on the first count while pushing the LNP into third place.[ citation needed ]

Labor consolidated its hold on the seat in 2017, with Butcher picking up a healthy swing of 10.7 percent and again pushing the LNP into third place. [3] He was reelected in 2020 with a two-party vote of 73.5 percent, making Gladstone the third-safest Labor seat in the state and the safest outside Brisbane.[ citation needed ]

Members for Gladstone

MemberPartyTerm
  Neil Bennett Labor 1992–1995
  Liz Cunningham Independent 1995–2015
  Glenn Butcher Labor 2015–present

Election results

2020 Queensland state election: Gladstone [4] [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Glenn Butcher 18,42964.40+0.09
Liberal National Ron Harding4,33915.16+3.60
One Nation Kevin Jorgensen3,67712.85−7.57
Independent Murray Peterson1,1624.06+4.06
Greens Emma Eastaughffe1,0113.53−0.18
Total formal votes28,61896.87+0.21
Informal votes9243.13−0.21
Turnout 29,54287.95+1.52
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Glenn Butcher 21,03073.49+0.20
Liberal National Ron Harding7,58826.51−0.20
Labor hold Swing +0.20
Primary vote results in Barron River (Parties that did not get 5% of the vote are omitted)
  Labor
  Liberal National
  National
  Liberal
  One Nation
  Katter's Australian
  Independent
Two-candidate-preferred vote results in Barron River

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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. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Gladstone (SED)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 9 February 2024. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. Green, Antony. "Gladstone". Queensland Election 2017. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  4. 2020 State General Election – Gladstone – District Summary, ECQ.
  5. https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/qld/2020/guide/glad [ bare URL ]