Division of Brisbane

This article is about the Australian federal electorate. For other uses, seeElectoral district of Brisbane.

Brisbane AustralianHouse of RepresentativesDivision
Interactive map of boundaries
Created	1901
MP	Stephen Bates
Party	Greens
Namesake	Brisbane
Electors	125,241 (2022)
Area	57 km2(22.0 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner metropolitan

TheDivision of Brisbaneis anAustralian electoral divisionin thestateofQueensland.

The electorate has had a large number of openlygaycandidates over the years. In 2016, both major parties (theLNPand theLabor Party) fielded an openly gay candidate for the first time in Australian history. In 2022, theGreenscandidateStephen Bates,an openly gay man, defeated incumbent LNP memberTrevor Evans,who is also gay.

History

The city ofBrisbane,the division's namesake (pictured August 2012)

The division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of theoriginal 65 divisionsto be contested at thefirst federal election.It is named after the city ofBrisbane.

It was inLaborhands for all but five years from 1931 to 2010, and for most of that time was a marginal Labor seat. However, a redistribution ahead of the2010 electionpushed the seat into more conservative-leaning territory east ofBreakfast Creek.This helpedLiberal PartychallengerTeresa Gambarotake the seat from Labor incumbentArch Bevis,marking the first time in over a century that Labor had been in government without holding Brisbane. She was re-elected in2013with an increased majority.

Gambaro did not re-contest the seat at the2016 election.The contest was historic in that it was the first Australian federal election where both major party candidates in a lower house seat contest wereopenly gay–Trevor Evansfor the Liberal Nationals and Pat O'Neill for Labor.Evans retained the seat for the LNP. Evans was re-elected in2019despite being the only incumbent Liberal National MP to suffer a swing against them at that election.

The seat of Brisbane has a growingGreensvote, with the party being only 2.12% short of overtaking the Labor Party on primary vote and thus likely entering the two-party preferred vote. The Greens won 2 booths at the 2019 federal election (Kelvin GroveandSpring Hill) and came second in a further 9 booths. The increase in the Greens vote in Brisbane has come largely at the expense of the Labor Party, with their vote having dropped by 22.47% from 1993, when the Greens first contested Brisbane, to 2019, where the Greens received 22.37% of the overall vote. In the2022 federal election,Greens candidateStephen Bateswon the seat. The party also won the neighbouring divisions ofRyanandGriffith.

Boundaries

On its original boundaries, Brisbane covered all of what is now the northern part of theCity of Brisbane,but successive boundary changes cut it back to the inner suburban area. However, between1913and1949the seat instead covered the inner south-west.

Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by theAustralian Electoral Commission.Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.

It now extends from the city centre into the western suburbs, and includes theBrisbane CBD,Alderley,Ashgrove,Bowen Hills,Clayfield,Enoggera,Ferny Grove,Fortitude Valley,Gaythorne,Grange,Herston,Kelvin Grove,Keperra,Milton,Mitchelton,New Farm,Newmarket,Newstead,Teneriffe,Red Hill,Spring Hill,Upper Kedron,Wilston,Windsor,Gordon Park,Wooloowin,Lutwyche,parts ofBardon,Everton Park,PaddingtonandStafford.

In the 2009 redistribution announced by theAustralian Electoral Commission,the suburbs ofHendra,AscotandHamiltonwere included in the seat of Brisbane.

Members

	Image	Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Thomas Macdonald-Paterson (1844–1906)	Protectionist	30 March 1901– 1903	Previously held theLegislative Assembly of Queenslandseat ofBrisbane North.Lost preselection and then lost seat
			Independent Protectionist	1903 – 16 December 1903
		Millice Culpin (1846–1941)	Labour	16 December 1903– 12 December 1906	Lost seat
		Justin Foxton (1849–1916)	Anti-Socialist	12 December 1906– 26 May 1909	Previously held theLegislative Assembly of Queenslandseat ofCarnarvon.Served as minister underDeakin.Lost seat
			Liberal	26 May 1909 – 13 April 1910
		William Finlayson (1867–1955)	Labor	13 April 1910– 13 December 1919	Lost seat. Later appointed to theQueensland Legislative Councilin 1920
		Donald Cameron (1879–1960)	Nationalist	13 December 1919– 7 May 1931	Lost seat. Later elected to the Division ofLilleyin1934
			United Australia	7 May 1931 – 19 December 1931
		George Lawson (1880–1966)	Labor	19 December 1931– 2 November 1961	Previously a member of theQueensland Legislative Council.Served as minister underCurtin.Retired. Last veteran of theSecond Boer Warto serve in theHouse of Representatives
		Manfred Cross (1929–2024)		9 December 1961– 13 December 1975	Lost seat
		Peter Johnson (1943–)	Liberal	13 December 1975– 18 October 1980	Lost seat
		Manfred Cross (1929–2024)	Labor	18 October 1980– 19 February 1990	Retired
		Arch Bevis (1955–)		24 March 1990– 19 July 2010	Lost seat
		Teresa Gambaro (1958–)	Liberal National	21 August 2010– 9 May 2016	Previously held the Division ofPetrie.Retired
		Trevor Evans (1981–)		2 July 2016– 21 May 2022	Lost seat
		Stephen Bates (1992–)	Greens	21 May 2022– present	Incumbent

Election results

Main article:Electoral results for the Division of Brisbane

This section is an excerpt fromResults of the 2022 Australian federal election in Queensland § Brisbane.[edit]

2022 Australian federal election:Brisbane

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Trevor Evans	41,032	37.71	−10.13
	Labor	Madonna Jarrett	29,652	27.25	+2.76
	Greens	Stephen Bates	29,641	27.24	+4.87
	One Nation	Trevor Hold	2,429	2.23	−0.26
	Animal Justice	Tiana Kennedy	2,135	1.96	+1.96
	United Australia	Justin Knudson	2,102	1.93	+0.54
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Bull	1,807	1.66	+1.66
Total formal votes			108,798	97.92	+0.44
Informal votes			2,312	2.08	−0.44
Turnout			111,110	88.74	−1.77
Notionaltwo-party-preferredcount
	Labor	Madonna Jarrett	59,183	54.40	+9.32
	Liberal National	Trevor Evans	49,615	45.60	−9.32
Two-candidate-preferredresult
	Greens	Stephen Bates	58,460	53.73	+53.73
	Liberal National	Trevor Evans	50,338	46.27	−8.65
	GreensgainfromLiberal National

Primary vote results in Brisbane (Parties that did not get 5% of the vote are omitted)

Liberal

National

Labor

Greens

Australian Democrats

Two-candidate-preferred results in Brisbane

External links

• Division of Brisbane (Qld)–Australian Electoral Commission