Electoral district of Broadwater

Broadwater Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Broadwater (2008—)
State or territory:	Queensland
MP:	Peta-Kaye Croft
Party:	Labor
Namesake:	Nerang River Estuary

Broadwater is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia. It was created at the 1991 redistribution.

The electorate is based on the northern end of the Gold Coast. It includes South Stradbroke Island as well as Labrador, Paradise Point, Runaway Bay and Sanctuary Cove.

Since 2001 the local member has been Peta-Kaye Croft of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

Members for Broadwater

Member		Party	Term
	Allan Grice	National	1992–2001
	Peta-Kaye Croft	Labor	2001–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Broadwater

Queensland state election, 2009: Broadwater
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Peta-Kaye Croft	12,090	46.8	-5.5
	Liberal National	Richard Towson	11,345	43.9	+3.9
	Greens	Graeme Maizey	1,289	5.0	-0.3
	DS4SEQ	Ben Monaghan	646	2.5	+2.5
	Independent	Rohan Turnley	458	1.8	+1.8
Total formal votes			25,828	97.7
Informal votes			562	2.3
Turnout			26,390	88.7
Two-candidate preferred result
	Labor	Peta-Kaye Croft	12,829	52.0	-4.6
	Liberal National	Richard Towson	11,829	48.0	+4.6
	Labor hold		Swing	-4.6

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)