Electoral district of Toowoomba North

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Toowoomba North
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
ECQ-2017-Final-Toowoomba North.pdf
Electoral map of Toowoomba North 2017
State Queensland
MP Trevor Watts
Party Liberal National
Namesake Toowoomba
Electors 37,423 (2020)
Area111 km2 (42.9 sq mi)
DemographicProvincial
Coordinates 27°30′S151°58′E / 27.500°S 151.967°E / -27.500; 151.967
Electorates around Toowoomba North:
Condamine Condamine Lockyer
Condamine Toowoomba North Lockyer
Condamine Toowoomba South Lockyer
Electoral map of Toowoomba North 2008 QLD - Toowoomba North 2008.png
Electoral map of Toowoomba North 2008

Toowoomba North is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1972 redistribution. It replaced the abolished electorate of Toowoomba West. Toowoomba North is largely based around the upper half of the city of Toowoomba. [1]

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It covers the suburbs north of James Street, including Newtown, Wilsonton, Mount Lofty, etc. It also includes the urban fringe area of Blue Mountain Heights, the satellite town of Highfields and Spring Bluff. It excludes certain western localities of Toowoomba, which are in the Electoral district of Condamine.

The electorate is currently represented by Trevor Watts of the Liberal National Party of Queensland.

Members for Toowoomba North

MemberPartyTerm
  Ray Bousen Labor 1972–1974
  John Lockwood Liberal 1974–1983
  Sandy McPhie National 1983–1989
  John Flynn Labor 1989–1992
  Graham Healy National 1992–2001
  Kerry Shine Labor 2001–2012
  Trevor Watts Liberal National 2012–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Queensland state election § Toowoomba North.[ edit ]
2020 Queensland state election: Toowoomba North [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal National Trevor Watts 16,11549.99+7.80
Labor Megan O'Hara Sullivan11,29735.04+2.02
One Nation Ron Humphrey2,3807.38−7.28
Greens Alyce Nelligan2,0806.45−0.08
United Australia Stella Sokolova3641.13+1.13
Total formal votes32,23697.52+1.13
Informal votes8192.48−1.13
Turnout 33,05588.33+0.14
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal National Trevor Watts 18,47957.32+1.60
Labor Megan O'Hara Sullivan13,75742.68−1.60
Liberal National hold Swing +1.60
Primary vote results in Toowoomba North (Parties that have never gotten 5% of the vote are omitted)
  Liberal National
  Country/National
  Liberal
  Labor
  One Nation
  Greens
  Katter's Australian
  City Country Alliance
  Palmer United/United Australia Party
  Australian Democrats
  Queensland Labor
  Independent
Two-party-preferred vote vote results in Toowoomba North

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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. ↑ 2020 State General Election – Toowoomba North – District Summary, ECQ.
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