Electoral district of Beaudesert

Beaudesert Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Beaudesert (2008—)
State or territory:	Queensland
Dates current:	1992–present
MP:	Aidan McLindon
Party:	Katter's Australian Party
Namesake:	Beaudesert

Beaudesert is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.

Beaudesert encompasses rural and semi-urban regions located to the south of the Brisbane metropolitan area. Major communities located within this electoral include Beaudesert, Boonah, Aratula, Jimboomba, Tamborine, Canungra, and Rathdowney.

The seat was created at the 1991 redistribution largely from the territory of the abolished seat of Fassifern. It has been a safe seat for the National Party, and its successor the Liberal National Party, since its creation, although current member Aidan McLindon left the LNP in 2010 to form The Queensland Party. He subsequently joined Katter's Australian Party in 2011.

Members for Beaudesert

Member		Party	Term
	Kev Lingard	National	1992–2008
		Liberal National	2008–2009
	Aidan McLindon	Liberal National	2009–2010
		Independent	2010
		The Queensland Party	2010–2011
		Katter's Australian Party	2011–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Beaudesert

Queensland state election, 2009: Beaudesert
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Aidan McLindon	10,700	37.9	-12.6
	Labor	Brett McCreadie	7,012	24.8	-13.3
	Independent	Pauline Hanson	5,998	21.2	+21.2
	Independent	Keith Gee	2,191	7.8	+7.8
	Greens	Andy Grodecki	1,970	7.0	-4.4
	DS4SEQ	Russell Pata	193	0.7	+0.7
	Independent	Richard Somers	166	0.6	+0.6
Total formal votes			28,230	98.1
Informal votes			498	1.9
Turnout			28,728	92.2
Two-candidate preferred result
	Liberal National	Aidan McLindon	12,418	58.3	+2.4
	Labor	Brett McCreadie	8,879	41.7	-2.4
	Liberal National hold		Swing	+2.4

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)