Electoral district of Redcliffe

Redcliffe Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Redcliffe (2008—)
State	Queensland
MP	Yvette D'Ath
Party	Labor
Namesake	Redcliffe
Electors	33,755 (2015)
Area	198 km^2 (76.4 sq mi)
Coordinates	27°12′S 153°16′E / 27.200°S 153.267°ECoordinates: 27°12′S 153°16′E / 27.200°S 153.267°E

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

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.

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 Australian 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. However, he resigned from Parliament on 19 November 2013 citing ill health--though he was also facing all-but-certain expulsion from the chamber. This triggered a by-election on 22 February 2014, in which former federal MP Yvette D'Ath reclaimed the seat for Labor.^[1][2] She won 57.1% of the two-party preferred vote making it the safest ALP seat in the Queensland Parliament.

Members for Redcliffe

Member		Party	Term
	Jim Houghton	Independent	1960–1960
		Liberal	1960–1961
		Independent	1961–1962
		Country	1963–1975
		National Country	1975–1979
	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–present

Election results

Queensland state election, 2015: Redcliffe[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Yvette D'Ath	14,399	47.24	+16.48
	Liberal National	Kerri-Anne Dooley	11,497	37.72	−11.52
	Greens	Peter Johnson	1,698	5.57	−1.16
	Palmer United	Steven Griffith	1,477	4.85	+4.85
	Family First	Mark A White	710	2.33	−2.20
	Independent	Shayne Jarvis	701	2.30	+2.30
Total formal votes			30,482	98.01	+0.39
Informal votes			620	1.99	−0.39
Turnout			31,102	90.98	−0.13
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Yvette D'Ath	16,602	57.58	+17.68
	Liberal National	Kerri-Anne Dooley	12,230	42.42	−17.68
	Labor gain from Liberal National		Swing	+17.68

References

1. 2014 Redcliffe by-election: Antony Green ABC
2. Redcliffe by-election: Labor candidate Yvette D'Ath wins the Queensland seat - ABC 22 February 2014
3. 2015 State General Election - Redcliffe - District Summary, ECQ.

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)
• (Kelmeny Fraser, Mark Solomons, The Courier-Mail)