Electoral district of Bundamba
| Bundamba Queensland—Legislative Assembly |
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 Bundamba (2008—) |
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| State or territory: | Queensland |
| MP: | Jo-Ann Miller |
| Party: | Labor |
| Namesake: | Bundamba |
Bundamba is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.
The electorate encompasses suburbs in the east and south-east of the City of Ipswich local government area. Major locations include Bundamba, Blackstone, Goodna, Redbank Plains, Augustine Heights and Springfield.
The seat has been held by the Australian Labor Party since its creation in 1992. In the 2006 state election, Labor's Jo-Ann Miller won the seat with 68.5% of the vote. Miller has held the seat since a by-election in February 2000 which was a record vote in a by-election towards a Government. She was the 100th ALP woman elected to Parliament.
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[edit] Members for Bundamba
| First incarnation (1873-1912) | |||
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| Member | Party | Term | |
| Simon Fraser | Unaligned | 1873–1878 | |
| William Hendren | Unaligned | 1878–1880 | |
| James Foote | Unaligned | 1880–1888 | |
| Thomas Glassey | Labor | 1888–1893 | |
| Lewis Thomas | Ministerialist | 1893–1899 | |
| James Cribb | Various1 | 1899–1912 | |
| Second incarnation (1992-present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Bob Gibbs | Labor | 1992–1999 | |
| Jo-Ann Miller | Labor | 2000–present | |
1 James Cribb, member for Rosewood 1893-1896, Bundamba 1899-1912 and Bremer 1912-1915 alternately listed his party status as Ministerialist and Opposition. The parliamentary members' register does not list dates for these changes.
[edit] Election results
| Queensland state election, 2009: Bundamba[1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Jo-Ann Miller | 15,470 | 61.3 | -7.5 | |
| Liberal National | Simon Ingram | 5,846 | 23.2 | +1.6 | |
| Greens | Ric Nattrass | 1,808 | 7.2 | -0.7 | |
| Independent | Patricia Petersen | 1,026 | 4.1 | +4.1 | |
| Family First | Bevan Smith | 666 | 2.6 | +2.6 | |
| DS4SEQ | Cameron Hodges | 411 | 1.6 | +1.6 | |
| Total formal votes | 25,227 | 97.1 | |||
| Informal votes | 621 | 2.9 | |||
| Turnout | 25,848 | 90.5 | |||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Jo-Ann Miller | 16,559 | 71.2 | -4.0 | |
| Liberal National | Simon Ingram | 6,687 | 28.8 | +4.0 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -4.0 | |||
[edit] References
- ^ Green, Antony. "2009 Queensland Election: Analysis of Results". ABC Election Unit. http://www.abc.net.au/elections/archive/qld/QLD2009_Results.pdf#page=15. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
[edit] External links
- Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)
