The district takes in the southern parts of the Darling Downs region along the New South Wales border. It includes the major towns of Warwick, Stanthorpe , and Goondiwindi and extends westward almost to St George. It includes several smaller communities such as:
Darling Downs has traditionally been a conservative area, and Southern Downs is no exception. It has been a comfortably safe seat for the Liberal National Party and its predecessor, the National Party for its entire existence. Predecessor seat Warwick had been in the hands of a non-Labor party since 1947.
The seat's first member, Lawrence Springborg, transferred from Warwick in 2001. He served as the last leader of the Queensland branch of the National Party for a few months in 2008, having previously served in that post from 2003 to 2006. He served as the first leader of the LNP from 2008 to 009, and served as leader again from 2015 to 2016. He also served as a minister in the Newman government.
electoral, district, southern, downs, confused, with, arundel, south, downs, parliament, constituency, south, down, parliament, constituency, southern, downs, electoral, district, legislative, assembly, australian, state, queensland, created, 2001, replacement. Not to be confused with Arundel and South Downs UK Parliament constituency or South Down UK Parliament constituency Southern Downs is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland It was created in 2001 as a replacement for Warwick 1 Southern DownsQueensland Legislative AssemblyElectoral District of Southern Downs 2017StateQueenslandDates current2001 presentMPJames ListerPartyLiberal NationalNamesakeDarling DownsElectors36 029 2020 Area30 951 km2 11 950 2 sq mi DemographicRegionalCoordinates28 20 S 150 42 E 28 333 S 150 700 E 28 333 150 700Electorates around Southern Downs Warrego Condamine LockyerWarrego Southern Downs Scenic RimNew South Wales New South Wales New South WalesElectoral map of Southern Downs 2008The district takes in the southern parts of the Darling Downs region along the New South Wales border It includes the major towns of Warwick Stanthorpe and Goondiwindi and extends westward almost to St George It includes several smaller communities such as Allora Cecil Plains Inglewood Killarney Leyburn Millmerran Texas Wallangarra YelarbonDarling Downs has traditionally been a conservative area and Southern Downs is no exception It has been a comfortably safe seat for the Liberal National Party and its predecessor the National Party for its entire existence Predecessor seat Warwick had been in the hands of a non Labor party since 1947 The seat s first member Lawrence Springborg transferred from Warwick in 2001 He served as the last leader of the Queensland branch of the National Party for a few months in 2008 having previously served in that post from 2003 to 2006 He served as the first leader of the LNP from 2008 to 009 and served as leader again from 2015 to 2016 He also served as a minister in the Newman government Contents 1 Members for Southern Downs 2 Election results 3 References 4 External linksMembers for Southern Downs EditMember Party Term Lawrence Springborg National 2001 2008 Liberal National 2008 2017 James Lister Liberal National 2017 presentElection results EditMain article Electoral results for the district of Southern Downs This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Queensland state election Southern Downs edit 2020 Queensland state election Southern Downs 2 Party Candidate Votes Liberal National James Lister 16 285 51 60 10 39Labor Joel Richters 8 198 25 98 9 09One Nation Rosemary Moulden 3 182 10 08 10 30Shooters Fishers Farmers Malcolm Richardson 1 398 4 43 4 43Greens Tom Henderson 1 309 4 15 0 17Legalise Cannabis Deborah Waldron 1 189 3 77 3 77Total formal votes 31 561 97 66 1 32Informal votes 756 2 34 1 32Turnout 32 317 89 70 0 80Two party preferred resultLiberal National James Lister 20 229 64 09 1 03Labor Joel Richters 11 332 35 91 35 91Liberal National hold Graphs are temporarily unavailable due to technical issues Primary vote results in Southern Downs Parties that have never gotten 5 of the vote are omitted National Liberal National Labor One Nation Katter s Australian Greens Family First Independent Graphs are temporarily unavailable due to technical issues Two candidate preferred vote results in Southern DownsReferences Edit 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 2020 State General Election Southern Downs District Summary ECQ External links EditGreen Antony 9 June 2023 Electorate Profile Australian Broadcasting Corporation Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Electoral district of Southern Downs amp oldid 1162963900, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
