Electoral district of Bulimba
Bulimba Queensland—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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![]() Map of the electoral district of Bulimba, 2017 | |||||||||||||||
State | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
Dates current | 1873–present | ||||||||||||||
MP | Di Farmer | ||||||||||||||
Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
Namesake | Bulimba | ||||||||||||||
Electors | 39,571 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
Area | 29 km2(11.2 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Demographic | Inner-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 27°28′S153°5′E/ 27.467°S 153.083°E | ||||||||||||||
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Bulimbais anelectoral districtof theLegislative Assemblyin the Australian state ofQueensland.
The electorate covers the inner eastern suburbs ofBrisbane.It is bounded on the north and the west by theBrisbane Riverand, as at the2009 election,covers the suburbs ofBulimba,Balmoral,Cannon Hill,Hawthorne,Morningside,Norman Park,MurarrieandSeven Hills.The boundaries have changed relatively little since 1923; prior to that, the boundaries extended as far east asWynnumand as far south-east asMount GravattandCleveland.[1]
History[edit]
Bulimba has existed continuously since the1873 election,originally covering most of the outer south-east of Brisbane.
Since the 1923 redistribution, Bulimba has strongly supported Labor. TheLabor Party(ALP) held the seat on all but six terms and, of those, 3 were held by an independent Labor candidate and one by a member of theQueensland Labor Party.As a measure of how strongly pro-Labor the seat has been, it was one of the eleven seats Labor retained in theCoalitionlandslide of1974,at which Labor was cut down to a "cricket team" of only 11 members.
In the1929 electionBulimba returned Queensland's first womanMember of the Queensland Legislative Assembly(MLA),Irene Longmanof theCountry and Progressive National Party,for one term.
Although ALP candidateRobert Gardnerwas elected in Bulimba in the1950 election,the close result caused close scrutiny of the votes and revealed that fraudulent votes had been cast in Gardner's favour. The election was ruled void, but Gardner himself was cleared of any involvement in the fraud.[2][3]The scandal and the investigations into the fraud continued for many months. Finally, aby-electionwas held on 14 April 1951 (almost 12 months after the original election) with the ballot boxes under police guard.[4]Gardner won the by-election by a narrow margin.[5]
Prior to the1957 election,Gardner and 21 other Labor MLAs under the leadership of PremierVince Gairleft the ALP to form theQueensland Labor Party(QLP). Gardner was defeated byJack Houstonof the regular ALP, who held the seat until 1980 and was the state'sOpposition Leaderfrom 1966 until 1974.
In the2012 election,Liberal National candidate Aaron Dillaway was elected. In the2015 election,Bulimba was the most marginal seat held by the LNP and was regained byDi Farmerof the ALP.
Members for Bulimba[edit]
Member | Party | Term | |
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William Hemmant | 1873–1876 | ||
James Johnston | 1876 | ||
George Grimes | 1876–1878 | ||
Frederick Swanwick | 1878–1882 | ||
John Francis Buckland | Liberal | 1882–1892 | |
James Dickson | Independent | 1892–1896 | |
Ministerial | 1896–1901 | ||
Walter Barnes | Ministerial | 1901–1903 | |
Conservative | 1903–1909 | ||
Liberal | 1909–1915 | ||
Hugh McMinn | Labor | 1915–1918 | |
Walter Barnes | National | 1918–1922 | |
United | 1922–1923 | ||
Harry Wright | Labor | 1923–1929 | |
Irene Longman | Country and Progressive National | 1929–1932 | |
William Copley | Labor | 1932–1938 | |
George Marriott | Labor | 1938–1941 | |
Independent Labor | 1941–1950 | ||
Bob Gardner | Labor | 1950–1957 | |
Queensland Labor | 1957 | ||
Jack Houston | Labor | 1957–1980 | |
Ron McLean | Labor | 1980–1992 | |
Pat Purcell | Labor | 1992–2009 | |
Di Farmer | Labor | 2009–2012 | |
Aaron Dillaway | Liberal National | 2012–2015 | |
Di Farmer | Labor | 2015–present |
Election results[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Di Farmer | 16,764 | 48.23 | −0.64 | |
Liberal National | Anthony Bishop | 11,883 | 34.19 | −0.35 | |
Greens | Rolf Kuelsen | 4,665 | 13.42 | +0.30 | |
One Nation | Doug Conway | 785 | 2.26 | +2.26 | |
Independent | Finn Armstrong-Schmakeit | 659 | 1.90 | +1.90 | |
Total formal votes | 34,756 | 98.10 | +1.53 | ||
Informal votes | 673 | 1.90 | −1.53 | ||
Turnout | 35,429 | 89.53 | +1.70 | ||
Two-party-preferredresult | |||||
Labor | Di Farmer | 21,336 | 61.39 | +0.61 | |
Liberal National | Anthony Bishop | 13,420 | 38.61 | −0.61 | |
Laborhold | Swing | +0.61 |
References[edit]
- ^"Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017"(PDF).Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament.Queensland Parliament.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 27 April 2020.Retrieved27 April2020.
- ^"KEEN VOTES WATCH".The Courier-Mail.Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 4 January 1951. p. 3.Retrieved29 March2014.
- ^"BULIMBA FRAUD".The Courier-Mail.Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 31 January 1951. p. 1.Retrieved29 March2014.
- ^"Election count continues".The Courier-Mail.Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 16 April 1951. p. 3.Retrieved29 March2014.
- ^"BULIMBA MAJORITY STANDS TO END".The Courier-Mail.Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 21 April 1951. p. 5.Retrieved29 March2014.
- ^2020 State General Election – Bulimba – District Summary,ECQ.
Further reading[edit]
- Bulimba Electorate Centenary Committee (1959),History of the Bulimba electorate 1859-1959: including the districts of Bulimba, Hawthorne, Norman Park, Morningside, Cannon Hill, Murarrie, Tingalpa and Hemmant,Cranbrook Press; issued by the Bulimba Electorate Centenary Committee