Electoral district of Warrego
Warrego is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
| Warrego Queensland—Legislative 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 km2 (130,429.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Rural | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 26°52′S 146°9′E / 26.867°S 146.150°E | ||||||||||||||
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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.
History Edit
The electoral district of Warrego was created by the Additional Members Act of 1864 which introduced six new single-member electorates.[1] A by-election was held to fill the seat. The nomination date was 18 March 1865 and the election was held on 25 March 1865.[2]
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 1908 to 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 Warrego Edit
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick Forbes | Unaligned | 1865–1867 | |
| Graham Mylne | Unaligned | 1867–1868 | |
| Sir Arthur Hodgson | Unaligned | 1868–1869 | |
| Sir Thomas McIlwraith | Ministerialist | 1870–1871 | |
| Archibald Buchanan | Ministerialist | 1871–1873 | |
| William Henry Walsh | Ministerialist | 1873–1878 | |
| Ernest James Stevens | Independent | 1878–1883 | |
| John Donaldson | Independent/Ministerialist | 1883–1888 | |
| Richard Casey | Unaligned | 1888–1893 | |
| James Crombie | Ministerialist | 1893–1898 | |
| William Hood | Ministerialist | 1898–1899 | |
| David Bowman | Labour | 1899–1902 | |
| Patrick Leahy | Ministerialist/Opposition | 1902–1907 | |
| George Barber | Labour | 1907 | |
| Patrick Leahy | Ministerialist/Opposition | 1907–1908 | |
| Harry Coyne | Labor | 1908–1923 | |
| Randolph Bedford | Labor | 1923–1941 | |
| Harry O'Shea | Labor | 1941–1950 | |
| John Dufficy | Labor | 1951–1969 | |
| Jack Aiken | Labor | 1969–1974 | |
| Neil Turner | National | 1974–1986 | |
| Howard Hobbs | National | 1986–2008 | |
| Liberal National | 2008–2015 | ||
| Ann Leahy | Liberal National | 2015–present | |
Election results Edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal National | Ann Leahy | 14,100 | 55.98 | +8.35 | |
| Labor | Mark O'Brien | 4,966 | 19.72 | −1.97 | |
| Katter's Australian | Rick Gurnett | 2,842 | 11.28 | −9.96 | |
| One Nation | Joshua Coyne | 2,224 | 8.83 | +8.83 | |
| Greens | Joshua Sanderson | 569 | 2.26 | −0.83 | |
| Independent | Mark Stone | 487 | 1.93 | −1.51 | |
| Total formal votes | 25,188 | 97.97 | +2.17 | ||
| Informal votes | 521 | 2.03 | −2.17 | ||
| Turnout | 25,709 | 87.72 | −0.71 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal National | Ann Leahy | 18,424 | 73.15 | +13.69 | |
| Labor | Mark O'Brien | 6,764 | 26.85 | +26.85 | |
| Liberal National hold | |||||
References Edit
- ^ (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 – Warrego – District Summary, ECQ.
External links Edit
- Green, Antony. "Electorate Profile". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.