Division of Brisbane

This article is about the Australian federal electorate. For other uses, see Electoral district of Brisbane.

Brisbane
Division of Brisbane (green) within Queensland
Created	1901
MP	Teresa Gambaro
Party	Liberal National
Namesake	Brisbane
Electors	97,203 (2013)
Area	58 km² (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.

For most of the time since the 1950s, it has been a marginal Labor seat. However, in 2010 Liberal National challenger Teresa Gambaro, previously the member for nearby Petrie from 1996 to 2007, took 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.

Boundaries

On its original boundaries, Brisbane included 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.

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

	Party	Term
Thomas Macdonald-Paterson	Protectionist	1901–1903
Thomas Macdonald-Paterson	Independent	1903–1903
Millice Culpin	Labour	1903–1906
Justin Foxton	Anti-Socialist	1906–1909
Justin Foxton	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–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Brisbane

Australian federal election, 2013: Brisbane
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Teresa Gambaro	41,681	47.99	+2.10
	Labor	Fiona McNamara	26,163	30.12	−0.26
	Greens	Rachael Jacobs	12,452	14.34	−6.94
	Palmer United	Veronica Ford	3,643	4.19	+4.19
	Katter's Australian	Connie Cicchini	951	1.09	+1.09
	Family First	Sharyn Joyner	801	0.92	−0.65
	Secular	Tony Rose	602	0.69	+0.69
	Stable Population	John Roles	564	0.65	+0.65
Total formal votes			86,857	96.12	−0.12
Informal votes			3,504	3.88	+0.12
Turnout			90,361	92.80	+1.45
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Teresa Gambaro	47,145	54.28	+3.15
	Labor	Fiona McNamara	39,712	45.72	−3.15
	Liberal National hold		Swing	+3.15

References

External links

Division of Brisbane (Qld) – Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Queensland

Blair Bonner Bowman Brisbane Capricornia Dawson Dickson Fadden Fairfax Fisher Flynn Forde Griffith Groom Herbert Hinkler Kennedy Leichhardt Lilley Longman Maranoa McPherson Moncrieff Moreton Oxley Petrie Rankin Ryan Wide Bay Wright Abolished: Darling Downs Oxley (1901–34)

Divisions in: New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Australian Capital and Northern Territories

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

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