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Electoral district of Warrego

Coordinates: 26°52′S 146°9′E / 26.867°S 146.150°E / -26.867; 146.150
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Warrego
QueenslandLegislative Assembly
Electoral map of Warrego 2017
StateQueensland
Created1865
MPAnn Leahy
PartyLiberal National
NamesakeWarrego River
Electors29,307 (2020)
Area337,812 km2 (130,429.9 sq mi)
DemographicRural
Coordinates26°52′S 146°9′E / 26.867°S 146.150°E / -26.867; 146.150
Electorates around Warrego:
South Australia Gregory Callide
Nanango
South Australia Warrego Condamine
Southern Downs
South Australia New South Wales New South Wales
2008 Electoral map of Warrego

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

The electorate lies in the extreme southwest of Queensland, running along the western part of the border with New South Wales. It includes the large town of Dalby, as well as the rural centres of Surat, Roma, Tara, Charleville, Augathella, St George and Cunnamulla.

History

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The electoral district of Warrego was created by the Additional Members Act of 1864 which introduced six new single-member electorates.[1] A by-election was held to fill the seat. The nomination date was 18 March 1865 and the election was held on 25 March 1865.[2]

Warrego was, as with the rest of the state, held by independents and loose groupings of members around the government of the day until the first years of the twentieth century, when the partisan system took hold. It then became a stronghold of the centre-left Labor Party, which held it without interruption from 1908 to 1974. The decline of the rural working class gradually changed the demographics of the electorate, however, and it fell to the conservative National Party in 1974, at the height of the popularity of the Bjelke-Petersen government. The National Party significantly increased its hold on the electorate thereafter, and it is today one of the party's safest seats. The current member, Ann Leahy, has held the seat since 2015.

Members for Warrego

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Member Party Term
  Frederick Forbes Unaligned 1865–1867
  Graham Mylne Unaligned 1867–1868
  Sir Arthur Hodgson Unaligned 1868–1869
  Sir Thomas McIlwraith Ministerialist 1870–1871
  Archibald Buchanan Ministerialist 1871–1873
  William Henry Walsh Ministerialist 1873–1878
  Ernest James Stevens Independent 1878–1883
  John Donaldson Independent/Ministerialist 1883–1888
  Richard Casey Unaligned 1888–1893
  James Crombie Ministerialist 1893–1898
  William Hood Ministerialist 1898–1899
  David Bowman Labour 1899–1902
  Patrick Leahy Ministerialist/Opposition 1902–1907
  George Barber Labour 1907
  Patrick Leahy Ministerialist/Opposition 1907–1908
  Harry Coyne Labor 1908–1923
  Randolph Bedford Labor 1923–1941
  Harry O'Shea Labor 1941–1950
  John Dufficy Labor 1951–1969
  Jack Aiken Labor 1969–1974
  Neil Turner National 1974–1986
  Howard Hobbs National 1986–2008
  Liberal National 2008–2015
  Ann Leahy Liberal National 2015–present

Election results

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2020 Queensland state election: Warrego[3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal National Ann Leahy 14,100 55.98 +8.35
Labor Mark O'Brien 4,966 19.72 −1.97
Katter's Australian Rick Gurnett 2,842 11.28 −9.96
One Nation Joshua Coyne 2,224 8.83 +8.83
Greens Joshua Sanderson 569 2.26 −0.83
Independent Mark Stone 487 1.93 −1.51
Total formal votes 25,188 97.97 +2.17
Informal votes 521 2.03 −2.17
Turnout 25,709 87.72 −0.71
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal National Ann Leahy 18,424 73.15 +8.80
Labor Mark O'Brien 6,764 26.85 −8.80
Liberal National hold Swing +8.80

References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "NON-INFECTIOUSNESS OF PLEURO-PNEUMONIA". The Darling Downs Gazette and General Advertiser. Toowoomba, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 1 February 1865. p. 4. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  3. ^ 2020 State General Election – Warrego – District Summary, ECQ.
  4. ^ "Warrego - QLD Electorate, Candidates, Results". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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