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 Liberal Party until its abolition in 1977. The bulk of the seat was merged into nearby Merthyr.[1]
It was recreated in 1992 as part of the electoral reforms that ended the malapportionment of the Bjelke-Petersen era. Although it was created as a notionally Labor seat, it was located in ancestrally Liberal territory. The bulk of the seat came from the abolished Merthyr, and its last member, Liberal Santo Santoro, won the seat on a four percent swing. Santoro would go on to serve as a minister in the Borbidge government. 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 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) | |||
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| 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. |
| Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
References
- ^ "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. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ 2020 State General Election – Clayfield – District Summary, ECQ.
External links
- Electorate profile (Antony Green, ABC)