Division of Brisbane

Brisbane Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Brisbane in Queensland, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1901
MP	Trevor Evans
Party	Liberal National
Namesake	Brisbane
Electors	106,958 (2016)
Area	58 km^2 (22.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Brisbane is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named after the city of Brisbane.

It was in Labor hands for all but five years from 1931 to 2010, and for most of that time was a marginal Labor seat. However, a redistribution ahead of the 2010 election pushed the seat into more conservative-leaning territory east of Breakfast Creek. This helped Liberal National challenger Teresa Gambaro, previously the member for nearby Petrie from 1996 to 2007, take the seat from longtime Labor incumbent Arch Bevis, marking the first time in over a century that Labor had been in government without holding Brisbane. She was reelected in 2013 with an increased majority.

Gambaro did not re-contest the seat at the 2016 election. The contest was historic in that it was the first Australian federal election where both major party candidates in a lower house seat contest were openly gay – Trevor Evans for the Liberal Nationals and Pat O'Neill for Labor.^[1] Evans retained the seat for the LNP.

Boundaries

On its original boundaries, Brisbane covered all of what is now the northern part of the City of Brisbane, but successive boundary changes cut it back to the inner suburban area. However, between 1913 to 1949 the seat instead covered the inner south-west.

It now extends from the city centre into the western suburbs, and includes the Brisbane CBD, Alderley, Ashgrove, Bowen Hills, Clayfield, Enoggera, Ferny Grove, Fortitude Valley, Gaythorne, Grange, Herston, Kelvin Grove, Keperra, Milton, Mitchelton, New Farm, Newmarket, Newstead, Red Hill, Spring Hill, Upper Kedron, Wilston, Windsor, parts of Bardon, Everton Park, Paddington and Stafford.

In the 2009 redistribution announced by the Australian Electoral Commission, the suburbs of Hendra, Ascot and Hamilton were included in the seat of Brisbane.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Thomas Macdonald-Paterson	Protectionist	1901–1903
		Independent	1903–1903
	Millice Culpin	Labour	1903–1906
	Justin Foxton	Anti-Socialist	1906–1909
		Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1910
	William Finlayson	Labor	1910–1919
	Donald Charles Cameron	Nationalist	1919–1931
	George Lawson	Labor	1931–1961
	Manfred Cross	Labor	1961–1975
	Peter Johnson	Liberal	1975–1980
	Manfred Cross	Labor	1980–1990
	Arch Bevis	Labor	1990–2010
	Teresa Gambaro	Liberal National	2010–2016
	Trevor Evans	Liberal National	2016–present

Election results

Australian federal election, 2016: Brisbane^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal National	Trevor Evans	46,972	49.85	+1.86
	Labor	Pat O'Neill	24,500	26.00	−4.12
	Greens	Kirsten Lovejoy	18,279	19.40	+5.06
	Liberal Democrats	John Humphreys	1,962	2.08	+2.08
	Family First	Mark Vegar	1,597	1.69	+0.77
	Defence Veterans	Bridget Clinch	915	0.97	+0.97
Total formal votes			94,225	97.61	+1.49
Informal votes			2,304	2.39	−1.49
Turnout			96,529	90.25	−2.48
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Trevor Evans	52,693	55.92	+1.64
	Labor	Pat O'Neill	41,532	44.08	−1.64
	Liberal National hold		Swing	+1.64

References

1. Brisbane - 2016 election: Antony Green ABC
2. Brisbane, QLD, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

• Division of Brisbane (Qld) – Australian Electoral Commission

Coordinates: 27°26′17″S 153°01′41″E / 27.438°S 153.028°E