Electoral district of Redcliffe

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Redcliffe
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
ECQ-2017-Final-Redcliffe.pdf
Electoral map of Redcliffe 2017
State Queensland
MP Yvette D'Ath
Party Labor
Namesake Redcliffe
Electors 38,589 (2020)
Area200 km2 (77.2 sq mi)
DemographicOuter-metropolitan
Coordinates 27°12′S153°16′E / 27.200°S 153.267°E / -27.200; 153.267
Electorates around Redcliffe:
Moreton Bay Moreton Bay Coral Sea
Murrumba Redcliffe Coral Sea
Moreton Bay Moreton Bay Coral Sea
Electoral map of Redcliffe 2008 QLD - Redcliffe 2008.png
Electoral map of Redcliffe 2008

Redcliffe is a Legislative Assembly of Queensland electoral division in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [1]

Contents

The division encompasses suburbs to the north and northeast of Brisbane, including Redcliffe, Woody Point, Scarborough, Clontarf and Margate, as well as parts of Kippa-Ring. The electorate's boundary stretches to take in Moreton Island.

History

The seat was created in 1960 and was first held by Liberal (later National) member Jim Houghton. The seat was contested between the Liberal and National Parties until Houghton's mid-term retirement in 1979, followed by a by-election won by Liberal Terry White. White became the Liberal Party leader in August 1983, causing a split in the National-dominated coalition government. In 1989, he lost the seat to Labor Party member Ray Hollis, who at one point was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. In 2005, Hollis resigned and the Liberals' Terry Rogers, a local accountant, picked up the seat in a by-election upset, with an 8.4% swing. However, his tenure in the seat was short, and he lost it to Labor's Lillian van Litsenburg, a school teacher, at the 2006 state election.

Scott Driscoll, president of the United Retail Federation and a local resident born in Redcliffe, contested the seat for the Liberal National Party of Queensland at the 2012 state election, winning with a 15.67% swing. In March 2013 Premier Campbell Newman suspended Driscoll from the Liberal National Party, due to allegations that the MP had misled parliament about his business interests. The month after his suspension, Driscoll announced his resignation from the LNP, and committed to serve the remainder of his parliamentary term on the cross-bench. On 18 November 2013, the parliamentary Ethics Committee found Driscoll guilty of ethics violations and recommended his expulsion. He resigned the next day, citing ill health, though it was a near-certainty that he would have been voted out. This triggered a by-election on 22 February 2014, in which Yvette D'Ath reclaimed the seat for Labor. [2] [3] D'Ath formerly held the federal seat of Petrie, which is based on Redcliffe. She won 57.1% of the two-party preferred vote making it the safest ALP seat in the Queensland Parliament.

Members for Redcliffe

MemberPartyTerm
  Jim Houghton Independent 1960–1960
  Liberal 1960–1961
  Independent 1961–1962
  Country 1963–1974
  National 1974–1979
  Terry White Liberal 1979–1989
  Ray Hollis Labor 1989–2005
  Terry Rogers Liberal 2005–2006
  Lillian van Litsenburg Labor 2006–2012
  Scott Driscoll Liberal National 2012–2013
  Independent 2013
  Yvette D'Ath Labor 2014–2024
  Kerri-Anne Dooley Liberal National 2024–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Queensland state election § Redcliffe.[ edit ]
2020 Queensland state election: Redcliffe [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Yvette D'Ath 15,37146.93+1.73
Liberal National Kerri-Anne Dooley 12,23137.34+0.10
Greens Will Simon2,3647.22−0.76
One Nation Virginia Davy1,4274.36+4.36
Independent Ian Philp6942.12−1.43
Independent Carolyn Kerr3521.07+1.07
United Australia Bob Blohberger3140.96+0.96
Total formal votes32,75396.91+1.57
Informal votes1,0443.09−1.57
Turnout 33,79787.58−0.04
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Yvette D'Ath 18,37756.11+1.25
Liberal National Kerri-Anne Dooley 14,37643.89−1.25
Labor hold Swing +1.25

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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.
  2. ↑ Green, Antony. "2014 Redcliffe by-election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  3. ↑ Redcliffe by-election: Labor candidate Yvette D'Ath wins the Queensland seat - ABC 22 February 2014
  4. ↑ 2020 State General Election – Redcliffe – District Summary, ECQ.
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