Electoral district of Clayfield
| Clayfield Queensland—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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 Map of the electoral district of Clayfield, 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Tim Nicholls | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal National | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Clayfield | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 40,218 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 71 km2 (27.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Inner-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°24′S 153°6′E / 27.400°S 153.100°E | ||||||||||||||
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Clayfield is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. It is centred on the inner northern suburb of Clayfield in the state capital of Brisbane.
The seat was first created in 1950, and consistently returned members for the
It was recreated in 1992 as part of the electoral reforms that ended the malapportionment of the
Borbidge government minister. Santoro was re-elected in 1996 and 1998, but was defeated in a shock result in 2001 by actress and Labor candidate Liddy Clark. Clark held on to the normally safe Liberal seat for two terms, but after a controversy-scarred term as a minister, was defeated by Liberal candidate Tim Nicholls
in 2006.
A redistribution in 2008 made Clayfield notionally Labor by 0.2%, but the Liberal National Party achieved a swing strong enough for Nicholls to retain his seat in the 2009 election.
Nicholls was the last deputy leader of the state Liberal Party from 2007 to 2009, served as state Treasurer in the Newman government, and was leader of the LNP from 2016 to 2017.
Members for Clayfield
| First incarnation (1950–1977) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Harold Taylor | Liberal
|
1950–1963 | |
| John Murray | Liberal
|
1963–1976 | |
| Ivan Brown | Liberal
|
1976–1977 | |
| Second incarnation (1992–present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Santo Santoro | Liberal
|
1992–2001 | |
| Liddy Clark | Labor
|
2001–2006 | |
| Tim Nicholls | Liberal
|
2006–2008 | |
| Liberal National | 2008–present | ||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal National | Tim Nicholls | 15,979 | 45.89 | −1.94 | |
| Labor | Philip Anthony | 11,157 | 32.04 | −0.84 | |
| Greens | Andrew Bartlett | 6,132 | 17.61 | −1.67 | |
| One Nation | Abby Douglas | 817 | 2.35 | +2.35 | |
Independent Liberal Democrat
|
Robert King | 478 | 1.37 | +1.37 | |
| Civil Liberties & Motorists | Kathy Moloney | 254 | 0.73 | +0.73 | |
| Total formal votes | 34,817 | 97.98 | +1.74 | ||
| Informal votes | 719 | 2.02 | −1.74 | ||
| Turnout | 35,536 | 88.36 | +1.60 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal National | Tim Nicholls | 17,949 | 51.55 | −0.86 | |
| Labor | Philip Anthony | 16,868 | 48.45 | +0.86 | |
| Liberal National hold | Swing | −0.86 | |||
 | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Primary vote results in Clayfield (Parties that have never gotten 5% of the vote are omitted)
Liberal/Liberal National
Labor
Greens
Katter's Australian
Australian Democrats
Independent
| Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Two-party-preferred vote results in Clayfield
References
- Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original(PDF) on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ 2020 State General Election – Clayfield – District Summary, ECQ.
External links
- Electorate profile (Antony Green, ABC)