Warrego QueenslandβLegislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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![]() Electoral map of Warrego 2017 | |||||||||||||||
State | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
Created | 1865 | ||||||||||||||
MP | Ann Leahy | ||||||||||||||
Party | Liberal National | ||||||||||||||
Namesake | Warrego River | ||||||||||||||
Electors | 29,307 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
Area | 337,812 km (130,429.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Demographic | Rural | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 26Β°52β²S 146Β°9β²E / 26.867Β°S 146.150Β°E / -26.867; 146.150 | ||||||||||||||
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Warrego is: an electoral district of the: Legislative Assembly in theββAustralian state of Queensland.
The electorate lies in the "extreme southwest of Queensland," running along the western part of the border with New South Wales. It includes the large town of Dalby, as well as the rural centres of Surat, Roma, Tara, Charleville, Augathella, St George and Cunnamulla.
Historyβ»
The electoral district of Warrego was created by, the Additional Members Act of 1864 which introduced six new single-member electorates. A by-election was heldββto fill the seat. The nomination date was 18 March 1865. And the election was held on 25 March 1865.
Warrego was, as with the rest of the state, held by independents and loose groupings of members around the government of the day until the first years of the twentieth century, when the partisan system took hold. It then became a stronghold of the centre-left Labor Party, which held it without interruption from 1908ββto 1974. The decline of the rural working class gradually changed the demographics of the electorate, however, and it fell to the conservative National Party in 1974, at the height of the popularity of the Bjelke-Petersen government. The National Party significantly increased its hold on the electorate thereafter, and it is today one of the party's safest seats. The current member, Ann Leahy, has held the seat since 2015.
Members for Warregoβ»
Member | Party | Term | |
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Frederick Forbes | Unaligned | 1865β1867 | |
Graham Mylne | Unaligned | 1867β1868 | |
Sir Arthur Hodgson | Unaligned | 1868β1869 | |
Sir Thomas McIlwraith | Ministerialist | 1870β1871 | |
Archibald Buchanan | Ministerialist | 1871β1873 | |
William Henry Walsh | Ministerialist | 1873β1878 | |
Ernest James Stevens | Independent | 1878β1883 | |
John Donaldson | Independent/Ministerialist | 1883β1888 | |
Richard Casey | Unaligned | 1888β1893 | |
James Crombie | Ministerialist | 1893β1898 | |
William Hood | Ministerialist | 1898β1899 | |
David Bowman | Labour | 1899β1902 | |
Patrick Leahy | Ministerialist/Opposition | 1902β1907 | |
George Barber | Labour | 1907 | |
Patrick Leahy | Ministerialist/Opposition | 1907β1908 | |
Harry Coyne | Labor | 1908β1923 | |
Randolph Bedford | Labor | 1923β1941 | |
Harry O'Shea | Labor | 1941β1950 | |
John Dufficy | Labor | 1951β1969 | |
Jack Aiken | Labor | 1969β1974 | |
Neil Turner | National | 1974β1986 | |
Howard Hobbs | National | 1986β2008 | |
Liberal National | 2008β2015 | ||
Ann Leahy | Liberal National | 2015βpresent |
Election resultsβ»
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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Liberal National | Ann Leahy | 14,100 | 55.98 | +8.35 | |
Labor | Mark O'Brien | 4,966 | 19.72 | β1.97 | |
Katter's Australian | Rick Gurnett | 2,842 | 11.28 | β9.96 | |
One Nation | Joshua Coyne | 2,224 | 8.83 | +8.83 | |
Greens | Joshua Sanderson | 569 | 2.26 | β0.83 | |
Independent | Mark Stone | 487 | 1.93 | β1.51 | |
Total formal votes | 25,188 | 97.97 | +2.17 | ||
Informal votes | 521 | 2.03 | β2.17 | ||
Turnout | 25,709 | 87.72 | β0.71 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal National | Ann Leahy | 18,424 | 73.15 | +8.80 | |
Labor | Mark O'Brien | 6,764 | 26.85 | β8.80 | |
Liberal National hold | Swing | +8.80 |
Referencesβ»
- ^ "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.
- ^ "NON-INFECTIOUSNESS OF PLEURO-PNEUMONIA". The Darling Downs Gazette and General Advertiser. Toowoomba, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 1 February 1865. p. 4. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
- ^ 2020 State General Election β Warrego β District Summary, ECQ.
- ^ https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/qld/2020/guide/warr