Electoral district of Woodridge

Coordinates: 27°39′S 153°6′E / 27.650°S 153.100°E / -27.650; 153.100
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Woodridge
Labor
NamesakeWoodridge
Electors36,787 (2020)
Area39 km2 (15.1 sq mi)
DemographicOuter-metropolitan
Coordinates27°39′S 153°6′E / 27.650°S 153.100°E / -27.650; 153.100
Electorates around Woodridge:
Stretton Stretton Waterford
Algester Woodridge Waterford
Logan Logan Waterford
Electoral map of Woodridge, 2008

Woodridge is an

electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.[1]

The district is based in the southern suburbs of

Logan Central, Marsden and Slacks Creek. The electorate was first created for the 1977 election
.

Woodridge has been held by the

Labor Party for all but a few months of its existence, when Mike Kaiser briefly served as an independent after being forced to resign from the party for branch-stacking a decade earlier. Since the 1980s, it has usually been one of Labor's safest seats. The only time Labor came close to losing the seat at an election came during Labor's near-wipeout in 2012, in which incumbent Desley Scott saw her majority slashed from a comfortably safe 25.4 percent to a marginal 5.8 percent. Scott retired ahead of the 2015 election. Her replacement, former cabinet minister Cameron Dick
, reverted the seat to its usual status as a comfortably safe Labor seat, ballooning the Labor majority to 25.9 percent—the safest seat in the entire legislature.

Members for Woodridge

Member Party Term
  Bill D'Arcy
Labor
 1977–2000
  Mike Kaiser
Labor
 2000–2001
 
Independent
 2001–2001
  Desley Scott
Labor
 2001–2015
  Cameron Dick
Labor
 2015–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Woodridge
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Queensland state election § Woodridge.[edit]
2024 Queensland state election: Woodridge[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Cameron Dick 16,093 53.6 −13.4
Liberal National Paul Darwen 6,315 21.0 +6.0
Greens Muhammed Ansary 3,940 13.1 +5.8
One Nation Zoran Kazovic 2,233 7.5 −3.2
Family First Karilyn Larsen 1,434 4.8 +4.8
Total formal votes 30,015 93.4
Informal votes 2,137 6.6
Turnout 32,152
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Cameron Dick 20,510 68.3 −7.9
Liberal National Paul Darwen 9,505 31.7 +7.9
Labor
hold 		Swing -7.9

References

  1. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 27 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Woodridge - QLD Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 27 October 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
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